1900.] Cataloijtic of the Colcoptcm of SoutJi Africa. 381 



Knysna, Graham's Town, Somerset East, Bedford, Seymour), 

 Natal (Durban, Frere, Maritzburg, Estcourt), Transvaal (Potchef- 

 stroom, Lydenburg), Southern Ehodesia (Buluwayo, Enkeldoorn, 

 Salisbury), Ovampoland and Damaraland. 



It occurs also in German East Africa, Abyssinia, and Senegal. 



Aphodius wahlbeegi, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 350. 



Flavous, shining; clypeus rounded from the genae, which are 

 angular at middle, obtusely sinuate at apex, marginate all round, 

 head impunctate, there is no clypeal carina, but there is a trans- 

 verse frontal impressed line and a pyriform black patch extending 

 from near the apex of the clypeus to the frontal transverse line ; 

 prothorax smooth, impunctate, a, little narrowed laterally in front 

 but not sinuate, and with the outer angle rounded, the base is not 

 marginate, and is slightly notched on each side, and there are in the 

 median part of the disk four black patches, the two anterior ones of 

 which are half the size of the posterior ; scutellum short, sharply 

 triangular ; elytra very finely punctato-striate, the striae being also 

 fine and not deep, the sixth stria reaches the base, and the eighth 

 and ninth are equally long and obliterated for one-third of the 

 length ; from near the median part there extends a black bi-sinuate 

 band extending across the elytra and covering about one-third of 

 the whole surface, and at the apex are two small round black spots ; 

 under side and legs glabrous ; metasternum depressed in the centre 

 and having a longitudinal impressed line ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate 

 outwardly. 



Length 9-10 mm. ; wddth 5 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban), Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



Aphodius holubi, Dohrn, 

 .Stett. Entom. Zeit., 1883, p. 107. 



A. nigrosignatus, Pering., Trans. S. Afric. Phil. Soc, vol. iii., 

 1885, p. 90. 



Closely allied to the preceding species ; the colour is the same, 

 the clypeus is of similar shape and also marginate, but the genae are 

 not angular at middle, the cephalic black patch is identical ; the 

 prothorax is similar in shape, sculpture, and markings ; the elytra 

 are also similar in shape and striation, the eighth and ninth striae 

 are of the same length and also obliterated for the same distance in 



