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pencil of hairs at the aculeate part ; prothorax covered with some- 

 what closely set round punctures ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra 

 not sinuate laterally, very slightly ampliated there past the median 

 part, not convex except in the posterior, deeply and somewhat 

 closely punctured, and with the costules very plain ; pygidium and 

 abdomen as deeply and quite as closely punctured as the elytra, 

 the pubescence on the latter fairly long, and very long and dense 

 on the pectus and on the femora. 



Length 11-13 mm. ; width 6-7 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban) ; Transvaal (Barberton, Eustenburg), 

 Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



LEEIBE, n. gen. 



Mentum deeply foveate, sparingly villose, gradually and roundly 

 ampliated from the base to the ligular part which is fused with the 

 mentum, and broadly and deeply emarginate in front, the labial 

 palpi are inserted on the outer face of the mentum, close to the 

 sides, basal joint very small, nearly sunk into the cavity, last one 

 longer than the two, swollen outwardly ; maxillae robust, concave, 

 without any traces of inner lobe, the upper margin is strongly 

 angular outwardly and has five sharp teeth arranged in a row, the 

 maxillary palpi are inserted quite close to the projecting upper angle 

 of the maxillae, the two intermediate joints are sub-moniliform, and 

 the apical one which is longer than the other three taken together 

 is thickly fusiform; clypeus parallel, truncate in front and reflexed, 

 plainly grooved transversely before the median part, and separated 

 from the head by a frontal suture, the anterior vertical part of the 

 clypeus is triangular, and there are no traces of a labrum, the head 

 is as long as the clypeus, and has no ridge on the vertex, the eyes 

 have no superciliary keel ; in the male the antennae are 10- jointed, 

 the pedicel consists of four joints, the second of which is thickly 

 moniliform, the third is as long as the first, the fourth is compressed, 

 sharply aculeate inwardly, and is about one-sixth as long as those 

 forming the 6-jointed club which is longer than the pedicel ; pro- 

 thorax ampliated laterally in the median part, and with the posterior 

 angles rounded, not pubescent along the anterior margin ; elytra 

 sub-cylindrical, not covering the propygidium ; pygidium convex,, 

 semicircular, slightly drawn forwards, abdominal segments con- 

 tractile, basal one nearly completely hidden by the coxae ; all 

 femora robust ; anterior tibiae bi-dentate outwardly and with an 

 inner spur, tarsi moderately long and with the joints slightly 

 dilated at apex, and glabrous underneath, claws long, slender, 



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