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cleft underneath past the median part, the lower tooth being 

 very much shorter than the upper ; apical spurs of posterior tibiae 

 sharp ; anterior coxae strongly conical. 



This genus plainly connects the Pachypodini with the Sericince, 

 and but for the position of the spurs of the hind tibiae might have 

 been included in the Clavipalpes of Lacordaire. 



Leribe vesca, n. spec. 



Black, shining ; elytra and legs piceous-black ; head deeply and 

 somewhat coarsely punctured, clypeus truncate in front, straight 

 laterally with the angles slightly oblique, impunctate above the 

 anterior impressed transverse line which bear a few erect setae, 

 but punctate thence to the frontal suture ; prothorax ampliated and 

 rounded laterally slightly past the median part, fringed laterally 

 with setae, but not pubescent along the anterior or posterior 

 margins, not much convex, but more dehiscent in the anterior 

 part, and covered with deep, somewhat closely set punctures ; 

 scutellum longer than broad, rounded at the apex, depressed ; 

 elytra almost twice as long as the prothorax, covering the half 

 of the propygidium, deeply and coarsely seriato-punctate, faintly 

 bi- or tri-costulate in the dorsal part, glabrous but having a fringe 

 of long sub-fulvous setae ; pygidium convex, semicircular at apex, 

 fringed there with a • row of long setae, as broadly and deeply pitted 

 ;as on the elytra ; abdominal segments and pectus with long hairs 

 in the seriate punctures ; all femora thick, anterior tibiae bi-dentate 

 outwardly and with an inner spur, legs hairy ; tarsi slightly longer 

 than the tibiae, joints lightly nodose at apex, claws long and very 

 slender, slightly cleft underneath. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 2-J mm. 



Hob. Natal (Ulundi). 



The shape of the clypeus is exactly the same as in Onochcsta 

 porcata of the Pachypodid Tribe of the Melolonthinae. 



Sub-Family MELOLONTHIN^. 



Body with scales or soft hairs ; labrum seldom absent ; ligula 

 fused with the mentum, sinuate or emarginate in -front ; maxillae 

 either edentate, very obtusely dentate or with robust teeth ; number 

 of antennal joints variable, that of the club also variable in the male, 

 and usually 3-jointed in the female {Sparrmannia Macrophylla ex- 

 cepted) ; abdominal segments free, partially free, imbricated or 

 fused ; hind tibiae with two spurs set on side of the basal joint, near 

 or at the inner apical angle. 



