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or with the four apical joints thickened, the three basal joints 

 pubescent ; last joint of labial palpi very swollen at the base and 

 acutely subulate at the tip, or fusiform and pubescent ; prothorax 

 and elytra subgibbose, the latter not sinuate at the apex ; legs long, 

 slender ; anterior tarsi not dilated ; claws not pectinate. 



Hab. The tribe has representatives in North and South America, 

 New Caledonia, and India. 



Synoj^sis of Genera. 



Last joint of labial palpi very swollen at base and subulate at tip, 

 antennce filiform, joints of equal thickness Ega. 



Last joint of labial palpi fusiform and very sharp, the four apical 

 joints of the antennae very much thickened AmcebcBa. 



Gen. EGA, Gastelnau, 

 Etudes Entom., 1835, p. 93. 



Mentum emarginate, with a short median tooth ; ligula long, 

 truncate at the tip, which is slightly ampliate, paraglossae connected 

 ■with it, but a little longer ; last joint of palpi ovate, pubescent, and 

 produced at the tip in a long subulate process ; mandibles slender, 

 incurved at tip ; labrum transverse, plurisetose in the anterior part ; 

 head gradually narrowed behind in a long neck ; eyes prominent ; 

 antennae very long ; joints thick ; prothorax subgibbose, very much 

 attenuated in front and behind, and with a long lateral median 

 seta ; body with a long peduncle ; elytra very convex, rounded 

 at the apex ; legs slender, long ; tarsi pubescent on the upper 

 part ; first joint very long, as long as the two following ; claws not 

 pectinate. 



Ega natalensis, 

 Plate X., fig. 10. 



Black, shining ; the three basal joints of antennae flavescent, with 

 the exception of the basal part of the first, which, like the palpi, is 

 infuscate ; the other joints are black, but the eighth and ninth, and 

 occasionally the basal part of the tenth, are w^hite ; legs infuscate, 

 with the basal part of femora and median part of tibise whitish ; 

 head and neck smooth, the former pilose underneath ; prothorax 

 gibbose in the centre, much attenuated in front and behind, smooth ; 

 elytra very convex, depressed in the anterior part ; the suture sub- 

 carinate, not striate, very finely pubescent, and with three rows of 

 long bristles placed at some distance from one another ; posterior 

 margin not sinuate, and with a subangular very long seta ; under 

 side piceous black. Length 3J-5 mm. ; width 1-1^ mm. 



Hab. Natal (D'Urban ?) ; Zambezia (Salisbury). 



