172 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. [vou. Xu. 
Gren. SPARRMANNIA Casteln., 
Hist. Natur. d. Col., 11., p. 132. 
Leontocheta, Erichs.; Cephalotrichia, Hope. 
Mentum rounded and deeply constricted near the median part or 
slightly above it, paraglossee very well developed in the inner face, 
hairy at the tip but not projecting beyond the mentum which is 
broadly but not deeply emarginate in the apical part, and the outer 
sides of which slope diagonally, the ligular part is strongly defined 
by a transverse suture, and is about one-third of the width of the 
basal part of the mentum; labial palpi lateral, apical joint slightly 
curved, somewhat swollen outwardly, sub-truncate at the apex; 
mandibles strong, deeply concave inwardly and having at apex a 
long sub-horizontal lamellate tooth truncate at the tip; maxille 
robust, armed at the tip with five sharp teeth set in a row and 
having two teeth set transversely under the upper row; last joint 
of maxillary palpi fusiform, very swollen in the outer part, sharply 
acuminate and deeply grooved along the whole length of the upper 
side ; clypeus reflexed, more or less parabolic from a certain distance 
from the base, more or less deeply notched at the apex, or simple, 
separated from the head by a slightly arcuate suture, vertical in the 
anterior part and with the anterior margin moderately reflexed, 
labrum broad, nearly bi-lobate; frontal part simple, hairy, divided 
from the clypeus by a suture; eyes very large, divided in the anterior 
part by the canthus of the gene which are otherwise obliterated ; 
antenne 11-jointed, third joint very long, only a little shorter than 
the basal one, second moniliform, fourth very minute, club foliated, 
7-jointed in both sexes, the two inner joints slightly shorter than 
the others, the first, however, is sometimes conspicuously shorter 
(S. bechwana); prothorax ampliated and rounded laterally in the 
middle, convex; scutellum neither broad nor long, ogival; elytra 
slightly broader at the base than the prothorax at its highest 
part, slightly ampliated laterally at a short distance from the 
humeral part, and covering only the base of the propygidium, 
they are not costulate, and the epipleural fold is very much reduced 
in the basal part; pygidium declivous, as long as broad at its widest 
part, shield-like, somewhat convex in the median part; abdomen 
very voluminous; hind cox nearly transverse; metasternum not 
very broad, mesosternum simple ; anterior tibiz strongly tri-dentate, 
intermediate and posterior ones with two carine en chevron, posterior 
tibiae broadly dilated at the tip, and provided with two inner flat 
spurs rounded at the tip and conspicuously dilated in the female of 
