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SEBAKUE, n. gen. 



Mentum fused with the ligular part, deeply impressed on the 

 outer face, bulging laterally and with the ligular part transverse, 

 not emarginate, but with the angles rounded, last joint of labial 

 palpi longer than the two preceding, slightly curved, sub- cylindrical, 

 but somewhat acuminate towards the tip ; maxillae robust, hollowed 

 on the inner face, provided with two strongly bifid teeth, diverging, 

 but set on the same line, and an angular one beneath these two, the 

 latter has a small bunch of hairs and represents evidently the inner 

 lobe of the maxillae ; maxillary palpi moderately long, last joint very 

 swollen outwardly, almost clavate, and somewhat deeply impressed, 

 straight inwardly ; mandibles robust, but compressed and chisel- 

 like at the tip ; labrum vertical, deeply emarginate ; clypeus 

 narrower than the head and separated from it by a somewhat 

 indistinct, transverse impressed line, eyes large, divided in front by 

 a slightly hairy canthus, head without any transverse frontal ridge ; 

 antennae 9- jointed, the three last joints form the club, which is 

 moderately elongate and longer in the male, ovate in the female, 

 the first joint is longer than third-sixth, the sixth is sharply 

 laminate in the male, less so in the female ; prothorax ampliated 

 laterally in the middle and nearly equally attenuate thence towards 

 the base as towards the apex, outer margins slightly reflexed, basal 

 angle sharp, anterior margin slightly pubescent near the angles in 

 the male, but all along the length in the female ; scutellum some- 

 what short, ogival, one-fourth broader than long ; elytra hardly 

 wider at the shoulders than the basal part of the prothorax, slightly 

 sinuate below the humeral part and thence moderately ampliate 

 towards the posterior, moderately convex, retuse behind and 

 covering nearly the whole of the propygidium ; propygidium sub- 

 vertical but convex in both sexes ; abdominal segments fused ; 

 anterior tibiae strongly tri-dentate outwardly and with a long inner 

 spur, tarsi moderately long, claws moderately robust, long, and 

 having underneath a sharp median tooth ; apical spurs of posterior 

 tibiae long and sharp in the male, compressed and rounded in the 

 female ; posterior and intermediate tibiae with two incomplete 

 oblique ridges. 



Sebakue coriacea, n. spec. 



Chestnut-brown, turning sometimes to ferruginous, glabrous on 

 the upper side, but with the mouth parts and the pectus, the 

 metasternum especially, densely hairy ; head scrobiculate, separated 

 ,hy a sinuate, transverse, somewhat indistinct impressed line from 



