182 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xiii. 



Sebaris palpalis, Casteln., 



Plate XLVL, figs. 32 and 44. 



Hist. Natur., ii., p. 131. 



Lacordaire's Gener., iii., p. 306; Atlas, pi. xxxiii., fig. 1, 



Light chestnut-red ; head, prothorax, scutellum, and under side 

 clothed with very long and very dense sub-erect fulvous hairs, hiding 

 the sculpture of the teguments ; clypeus hollowed and with the 

 margins very much reflexed, the outer part is produced obliquely 

 outwardly, the outer angles of the anterior part are produced into a 

 somewhat blunted tooth, while the anterior margin is also produced 

 diagonally from the outer angle to the median part, where it is 

 triangularly incised, with the angles of the incision forming two 

 broad sub-triangular teeth, the outer angles of the anterior part are 

 not quite as sharp in the female as in the male, the hollowed clypeus 

 is closely punctate and moderately pubescent, the frontal part of the 

 head is entirely hidden by the long hairs, but it is closely punctulate 

 like the prothorax ; the scutellum is sparingly punctate and smooth 

 at the apex ; elytra a little ampliated laterally past the humeral part, 

 somewhat convex, glabrous, deeply and somewhat coarsely punctate, 

 and having on each side four costules, they have an outer fringe o 

 moderately long fulvous hairs ; the pygidium is sparingly punctured ; 

 the two posterior spurs are only a little wider in the female than in 

 the male. 



Length 15-19|- mm. ; width 8J-11 mm. 



Hob. Cape Colony (Barrydale, Aberdeen). 



Another species of this genus is recorded from Humpata in Angola. 



Teibe MELOLONTHINI. 



Body with scales or villose hairs or both ; ligula fused with the 

 mentum, both broad, labial palpi inserted laterally, or sub-laterally on 

 the outer face of the mentum ; maxillae strongly dentate inwardly, 

 labrum strong, bi-lobate in most cases, transverse in others; 

 antennae 7-10- jointed, the number of club- joints variable in both 

 sexes ; eyes divided in front by a short canthus ; the first five 

 abdominal segments are fused with the suture, and often obliterated 

 in the centre, the last one alone is mobile ; anterior coxae seldom 

 subvertical, mostly strongly slanting or quite transverse. 



A 2 . Labrum bi-lobate or deeply incised. 



Episterna, long, narrow, divided from the narrow epimera by 



a keel, and not on a level with the epimera Schizonychides 



