1904. } Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. Ty 
genus is the third joint plainly longer than the fourth (Clitopa), the 
club itself is either laminate, parallel, or spatuliform in the male, and 
ovate or ovato-ovate in the female; pygidium either vertical, sloping 
slightly backwards, or strongly drawn forwards ; abdominal segments 
plainly not soldered together but in many species provided between 
the two ultimate segments with a distensible membrane, which 
would seem to imply that the other segments are only partially 
free ;** anterior tibize bi- or tri-dentate, and with or without an inner 
spur, hind ones triangularly dilated towards the apex, spurs long, 
sub-contiguous, either sharp in the male or compressed and broadly 
dilated in the female, tarsi moderately long, or long, occasionally 
ciliate. 
With the exception of Clitopa precalva, little is known of the 
habits of the South African species. In the case of the former, how- 
ever, they are those of certain Algerian species of Rhizotrogus, the 
females are wingless, the eyes considerably reduced, and they do 
not seem to leave the ground; the eyes are, however, not much 
inferior in size in the two females of Agostetha and Macrophylla 
which I have seen, nor are they without wings. I suspect that 
several species will, however, prove to have apterous females. 
This Tribe is represented in South Africa by forty-eight species 
representing twenty-four genera, which, with the exception of one 
(Clitopa), seems restricted to the South African area, but five kindred 
genera, including each one species, are recorded from Sansibar and 
British and German East Africa. I expect, however, that this 
number will be considerably increased. On the whole, the South 
African genera and species are fairly homogeneous, and merge 
insensibly into one another, in spite of the melolonthidous appear- 
ance of Agostetha, Macrophylla, or Onocheta. Lacordaire founded 
for the reception of these genera a Sub-Tribe of Melolonthine, the 
Macrophyllides, thus separating them from his Sub-Tribe Pachy- 
podides, and associating them with Sparrmaniia and Sebaris. He is 
evidently in error, because not only the species of these two genera 
have maxille very strongly dentate inwardly; but the abdominal 
segments are very plainly fused together, and not “non soudés 
ensemble,’ as lLacordaire states, also because the maxille of 
Atgostetha, Macrophylla, &c., cannot be said to have a dentate 
external lobe. Sparrmannia and Sebaris belong to the Melolonthin, 
but form a distinct link with the South African Pachypodini, of 
which they have the livery, just as Agostetha, which, except for its 
livery, so closely resemble in general facies and shape of clypeus 
* This membrane is also found in the genus Schizonycha and allied forms of 
Melolonthine, in which the segments are quite fused. 
