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B 2 . Mesosternum simple. 



C. Anterior margin of prothorax with a pubescent border. 



D 2 . Upper side glabrous. 



Claws without basal tooth, and with a sub- 

 median vertical one Sebakwe. 



D 1 . Body with scales or squamose hairs. 



a 2 . Propygidium grooved in the centre. 



Claws without a basal tooth, but with a 



small sub-median one Psilonychus. 



a 1 . Propygidium simple. 



Claws with a short basal tooth and an ante- 

 median sub-hamate one Coniopholis. 



B 1 . Mesosternum produced into a long horizontal spine. 



Anterior tibiae uni- or bi-dentate according to sex ; facies 



of Melolontha Bhabdopholis. 



BEKIQUA, n. gen. 



Mentum broad, transverse, nearly straight laterally, being only 

 very slightly sinuate near the point of insertion of the palpi, narrowly 

 incised in the centre of the anterior part which is quite straight 

 with the angles sharp, there is no trace of suture dividing the ligular 

 part from the mentum ; the apical joint of the short labial palpi is a 

 little shorter than the second, slightly fusiform and slender ; maxillae 

 with a sharply trifid tooth at the tip and an inner, somewhat ciliate 

 one, apical joint of maxillary palpi a little shorter than the two pre- 

 ceding ones taken together, slightly fusiform at base, truncate at the 

 tip ; mandibles robust, concave, tri-dentate at the tip, and lined 

 inwardly with a broad, briefly villose membrane ; head with a sharp 

 clypeal carina, clypeus with the margin slightly reflexed, vertical 

 part narrow, labrum short and very broadly incised ; antennae 10- 

 jointed, basal joint moderately long, second one moniliform, third to 

 fifth short, of equal length, set close to each other, sixth and seventh 

 sharply angular inwardly, club long, tri-jointed, the joints straight, a 

 little shorter than the whole pedicel ( $ ) ; prothorax convex, plainly 

 ampliated laterally in the median part ; elytra slightly broader at 

 the base than the base of the prothorax, ampliated laterally from 

 about the median part, convex, and covering half the propygidium 

 which is somewhat convex and vertical ; pectus densely villose ; 

 anterior tibiae tri-dentate ; posterior ones somewhat broadly dilated 

 at apex, the spurs are flattened, rounded at the apex, the upper one 

 very plainly dilated, and they have one oblique median ridge ; tarsi 

 long, slender, claws moderately curved and having underneath a 



