1904.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 181 



punctate, and the punctures separated by broader intervals ; the 

 punctures on the elytra, which are also somewhat parallel, are finer 

 and much more shallow, the pubescence on the propygidium and 

 pygidium are equally dense, and only the half of the abdominal 

 segments are clothed with whitish appressed hairs, the median part 

 of the abdomen is likewise glabrous ; the pectus is moderately 

 densely pubescent, but the hairs on the prosternum, and also along 

 the basal part of the base of the prothorax, are plainly fulvous, while 

 the others are white ; in the male, the only sex known to me, the 

 inner posterior spur is very broadly dilated, and the antennae are 10- 

 jointed, the club 7-jointed, but the inner joint is only a quarter of the 

 length of the one following, which is also shorter than the third ; 

 the anterior claws have only one basal tooth, but the intermediate 

 and posterior ones have two apical ones cleft in the manner of 

 Schizonycha. 



Length 14 mm. ; width 6 J mm. 



Hab. British Bechuanaland. 



Gen. SEBAEIS, Casteln., 

 Hist. Nat., 1840, ii., p. 131. 



Mentum narrow, orbicular laterally, truncate at the tip but slightly 

 sinuate in the middle, labial palpi small, inner lobe of maxillae pro- 

 duced into a slightly hooked tooth, upper lobe lamellate, somewhat 

 rounded at the tip, simple and with three or four setae at the apex, 

 paraglossae distinct but not projecting beyond the mentum, last joint 

 of maxillary palpi as long as the three joints preceding taken 

 together, fusiform outwardly, straight inwardly, and with a deep 

 longitudinal groove outwardly ;, mandibles robust, hollowed inwardly 

 but with the apical part almost truncate and ciliate ; clypeus vertical 

 in front, with the anterior margin strongly reflexed, labrum oblite- 

 rated, antennae 10-jointed, club 6-jointed, the joints are of equal 

 length, but the fourth joint of the pedicel projects distinctly in the 

 male, they are not as elongated in the female as in the male ; the 

 other characters are as in Sparrmannia, but the claws are more 

 abruptly hooked, the basal angle is somewhat broadly lobate, and 

 the post-median tooth underneath is vertical and set close to this 

 lobate basal part in both sexes. 



Distinguished from Sparrmannia by the shape of the maxillary 

 palpi and of the claws, and also by the obliterated labrum. 



