TRANSACTIONS 
OF THE 
SOUTH AFRICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 
Vore, XEhh* 
DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE COLEOPTERA OF 
SOUTH AFRICA (LucanIDZ AND SCARABHIDZ). 
By bl. Perweuny, FE-S:, FZs., &., 
Assistant Director South African Musewm. 
Sus-Famiry SERICINA. 
Bopy without scales or truly scale-like hairs; labrum obliterated, 
ligula emarginate in front, fused with the mentum ; maxille robust, 
always pluri-dentate inwardly; antenne 9 or 10-jointed, number of 
antennal clubs varying from 3 to 7; abdominal segments always 
with deep sutures, and seemingly partly free in some cases ; hind 
tibiz with two spurs, one on each side of the basal joint ; anterior 
coxee sub-vertical. 
This Sub-Family is far from being homogeneous in general 
appearance, and must be divided into two Tribes. 
Hind coxe broader laterally than the metasternum .. .. .. .. S©RICINI. 
Hind coxe much narrower than the metasternum Bete ce ie) CA BUABERING- 
The insects included in the first Tribe have a very peculiar 
_ silky or opaline sheen; they have occasionally sub-squamose hairs 
in the punctures (Sub-Gen. Lepiserica), but never scales or 
squamose hairs as in the Hoprnimnx or some MELOLONTHIN# ; 
their general appearance is unlike that of any of the other 
Scarabzidous insects; the Ablaberini, on the other hand, have the 
* This volume is a continuation of Vol. XII. 
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