1904. | Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. anal 
a short canthus, and having a more or less distinct orbital keel, first 
five abdominal segments not quite covered laterally by the elytra, 
the last one alone mobile; episterna very broad, epimera nearly as 
broad and separated by a fine suture; anterior cox transverse ; 
spurs of hind tibize or at least one of them broad, compressed, in 
both sexes. 
The insects for which I propose to found this Tribe are strikingly 
peculiar in many respects. They are massive, mostly clothed on the 
head and prothorax, pectus, and abdomen with a long pubescence, 
which is often extremely dense and very hygrometric; the clypeal 
shape is peculiarly their own; they are also remarkable by the 
dilatation of the compressed spurs of the hind tibiz, and, as the 
number of antennal joints forming the clubis the same in both sexes, 
as in some Ablaberint, the female would not be easily distinguished 
except for the still more broadly dilated, and often spatuliform hind 
spurs. [am not aware of any other Melolonthine in which the number 
of antennal joints reach eleven (Sparrnvannia); in this genus, the first 
and second joints of the anterior tarsi are spinose inwardly at the 
tip, and another peculiarity is that in some species the teeth of the 
claws vary in length and position according to the sex, and differ 
also in species belonging to the same genus. 
As I have already said in treating of the Pachypodiu, they are 
closely connected with them; the genus Beriqua of the Melolonthini 
does, on the other hand, form a sort of connecting link with the 
Sparrmannini?. I suspect them to live in the larval stage in old 
termite dung-heaps, like some species of Schizonycha, They are 
often met with flying in large numbers at dusk round a small bush, 
the crowd consisting probably of males awaiting the emergence of 
the females, which are, however, as common as the males. 
Apart from one species of Sebaris recorded from Angola, repre- 
sentatives of this Tribe have not been met with outside the South 
African limit. 
Key to the Genera. 
Third joint of antennal pedicel very long. 
Antenne 11-jointed.* 
Apical joint of maxillary palps moderately short, fusiform, labrum 
strong, deeply incised ; antennal club 7-jointed Se hee ee | 6Spanymannia. 
Antenne 10-jointed. 
Apical joint of maxillary palps long, fusiform outwardly only, 
labrum very small, sinuate; antennal club 6-jointed .. ..  .. Sebaris. 
* In S. bechuana the antenne are 10-jointed. 
