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h-. Antennte nine-jointed. 



Clypeus straight with the outer angles rounded, club of 

 the antennae as long as all the other joints together ; claws 

 double, unequal, and with the more robust one cleft . . Nanaga. 



Clypeus excavate, all the claws double, somewhat unequal 

 and slightly cleft ; posterior tibiae of the male with an 

 apical spur ; antennae nine-jointed ; the two apical teeth 

 of the anterior tibiae set close to each other Cylichnus, 



Clypeus excavate, the four anterior claws double, unequal, 

 simple and very divaricating ; posterior tibiae of the male 

 without an apical spur ; antennae nine-jointed ; the three 

 outer teeth of the anterior tibiae equidistant Fuibula. 



h\ Antennae ten-jointed. 



Clypeus parabolic, not excavate ; the four anterior claws 

 double, unequal, very divaricating, and cleft ; hind ones 

 single, simple ; four anterior tarsi moderately long . . Coiigella. 



Clypeus straight in front, deeply emarginate, all the claws 



double, unequal, and simple ; four anterior tarsi long . . Kareiga. 



B'. Body covered with scales. 



Clypeus broad ; antennae nine-jointed with the outer angles 

 rounded; the four anterior claws double, unequal, cleft; 

 elytra with a very plain callus on each side at apex ; hind 

 tibiae of the female only with a spur Hoplia. 



Gen. ANISOCHELUS, Burm., 

 Handb. d. EntomoL, iv., 1, p. 170. 

 Mentum very swollen in the middle, strongly narrowed at the base 

 and towards the apex where it is deeply constricted at the point of 

 insertion of the palpi, thence dilated triangularly with the angles 

 rounded and slightly penicillate, and broadly and deeply emarginate 

 at the tip ; upper lobe of maxillae short and having at the tip a long 

 pencil of hairs, it is armed with three strong teeth, the two upper ones 

 set opposite each other are falcate, and the basal one is simple and 

 not much hooked (inornatns) or briefly trifid (neglectus) ; apical joint 

 of labial palpi cylindrical, that of the maxillary also sub-cylindiical, 

 but a little more swollen outwardly than inwardly ; antennae nine- 

 jointed ; clypeus a little rounded laterally, straight at tip ; prothorax 

 a little attenuate laterally in front, base not sinuate ; scutellum 

 elongate, shai-ply triangular ; elytra depressed, not sinuate laterally, 

 singly rounded behind, and leaving the propygidium uncovered; 

 pygidium nearly vertical in both sexes ; abdomen broad, not con- 

 tracted ; anterior tibiui bi-dentate outwardly {Jiilaris, iicrjlcctus), or 



