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slightly ampliate laterally below the humeral part, narrowly but 

 deeply striate, the striae apparently non-punctate, intervals slightly 

 convex, punctate and having each two series of setigerous punctures 

 forming a dense, recumbent pubescence ; under side pubescent, 

 metasternum normal ; anterior tibiae tridentate. 



The pattern of the elytra is somewhat intricate owdng to the 

 pubescence covering it ; it consists really of a flavous band running 

 from the base on the first and second intervals for three-quarters of 

 the length, bent there at right angles, and ascending on the third 

 and fourth, descending and curving on the other intervals, and ulti- 

 mately joining the outer margin at a short distance from the apex, 

 this pattern, however, is complicated by some basal flavous patches. 

 In some immature examples the transverse bisinuate patch is 

 edged by the distinctly fuscous borders of the background which is 

 hardly darker than the bi-sinuate transverse patch. 



Length 4 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



This species is easily recognised by the dense greyish pubescence 

 •covering it. 



Hah. Natal (Estcourt), Southern Ehodesia (Sahsbury), 



Aphodius cinekascens, Klug, 

 Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 656. 



Brownish red, shining, with the sides of the prothorax narrowly 

 flavous ; head impunctate, simple, without trace of transverse line 

 ■or impression, genae oblique, but with the basal part hardly project- 

 ing beyond the eye, clypeus slightly attenuate laterally from the 

 apex of the genae, straight in front and distinctly marginate ; pro- 

 thorax nearly straight laterally, but a little emarginate in the centre, 

 hardly convex, strongly bisinuate along the base, which is not mar- 

 ginate, and almost impunctate, except for a few punctures in the 

 anterior lateral part ; scutellum long, impunctate ; elytra oblong, 

 with the intervals plane, finely aciculate and very briefly pubescent, 

 striae very fine and impunctate, sixth and seventh striae reaching only 

 to the base of the humeral tubercle, eighth interrupted towards the 

 base for about one-fifth of the length, ninth a little longer than the 

 eighth, and uniting with the marginal one under the humeral callus; 

 abdomen slightly and very briefly pubescent ; metasternum normal ; 

 anterior tibiae tri-dentate, apical spur thick, strong, curving in- 

 wardly. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



The type of this species is the only example I have met with. 



Ilah. Mozambique. (Tette, teste Klug.) 



