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cleft underneath past the median part, the lower tooth being 
very much shorter than the upper; apical spurs of posterior tibiz 
sharp ; anterior cox strongly conical. 
This genus plainly connects the Pachypodini with the Sericine, 
and but for the position of the spurs of the bind tibie might have 
been included in the Clavipalpes of Lacordaire. 
LERIBE VESCA, 0. spec. 
Black, shining; elytra and legs piceous-black; head deeply and 
somewhat coarsely punctured, clypeus truncate in front, straight 
laterally with the angles slightly oblique, impunctate above the 
anterior impressed transverse line which bear a few erect sete, 
but punctate thence to the frontal suture; prothorax ampliated and 
rounded laterally slightly past the median part, fringed laterally 
with sete, but not pubescent along the anterior or posterior 
margins, not much convex, but more dehiscent in the anterior 
part, and covered with deep, somewhat closely set punctures ; 
scutellum longer than broad, rounded at the apex, depressed ; 
elytra almost twice as long as the prothorax, covering the half 
of the propygidium, deeply and coarsely seriato-punctate, faintly 
bi- or tri-costulate in the dorsal part, glabrous but having a fringe 
of long sub-fulvous sete; pygidium convex, semicircular at apex, 
fringed there with a row of long sete, as broadly and deeply pitted 
as on the elytra; abdominal segments and pectus with long hairs 
in the seriate punctures; all femora thick, anterior tibize bi-dentate 
outwardly and with an inner spur, legs hairy; tarsi slightly longer 
than the tibize, joints lightly nodose at apex, claws long and very 
slender, slightly cleft underneath. 
Length 5 mm.; width 24 mm. 
Hab. Natal (Ulundi). 
The shape of the clypeus is exactly the same as in Onocheta 
porcata of the Pachypodid Tribe of the Melolonthine. 
Susp-Famiry MELOLONTHIN A. 
Body with scales or soft hairs; labrum seldom absent; ligula 
fused with the mentum, sinuate or emarginate in front; maxille 
either edentate, very obtusely dentate or with robust teeth ; number 
of antennal joints variable, that of the club also variable in the male, 
and usually 3-jointed in the female (Sparrmannia Macrophylla ex- 
cepted); abdominal segments free, partially free, imbricated or 
fused ; hind tibize with two spurs set on side of the basal joint, near 
or at the inner apical angle. 
