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SOUTH AFRICAN PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY. 



Vol. XIII.* 



DESCBIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE COLEOPTEEA OF 

 SOUTH AFEICA (Lucanid^ and Scarab^id^). 



By L. Peringuey, F.E.S., F.Z.S., &c, 

 Assistant Director South African Museum. 



Sub-Family SEBICIKEI. 



Body without scales or truly scale-like hairs ; labrum obliterated, 

 ligula emarginate in front, fused with the mentum ; maxillae robust, 

 .always pluri-dentate inwardly ; antennas 9 or 10-jointed, number of 

 antennal clubs varying from 3 to 7 ; abdominal segments always 

 with deep sutures, and seemingly partly free in some cases ; hind 

 tibiae with two spurs, one on each side of the basal joint ; anterior 

 coxae sub-vertical. 



This Sub-Family is far from being homogeneous in general 

 appearance, and must be divided into two Tribes. 



Hind coxse broader laterally than the metasternum Sericini. 



Hind coxae much narrower than the metasternum Ablaberini. 



The insects included in the first Tribe have a very peculiar 

 silky or opaline sheen ; they have occasionally sub-squamose hairs 

 in the punctures (Sub-Gen. Lepiserica), but never scales or 

 squamose hairs as in the HopLiiNiE or some Melolonthin^: ; 

 their general appearance . is unlike that of any of the other 

 Scarabaeidous insects ; the Ablaberini, on the other hand, have the 



* This volume is a continuation of Vol. XII. 



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