1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 



389 



is a slight elevation in the median part, a very faint transverse inter- 

 ocular line ; the whole surface of the head is aciculate, but the space 

 behind the impressed line is somewhat punctate ; prothorax sub- 

 parallel, not marginate along the base, deeply and somewhat closely 

 punctate all over ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra oblong, and with 

 the suture and the sides reddish brown, deeply striate, striae deeply 

 and closely punctured, all the dorsal ones reaching the apex singly, 

 eighth and ninth of equal length towards the base, and obliterated 

 there for one-fifth of the length, intervals smooth, very convex in 

 the dorsal part, nearly carinate on the sides and in the posterior 

 declivous part ; anterior tibiiB tri-dentate and veiy slightly serrulate 

 above the digitation. 



Length 4 mm. ; width li mm. 



Hab. Natal (Durban). 



Aphodius HiEMATiTicus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p 349. 



Brick-red, shining, glabrous on the upper side, antennae flaves- 

 cent; head finely aciculate on the clypeus, punctulate behind, 

 clypeus broadly but not deeply emarginate, somewhat obliquely 

 attenuate laterally and with the anterior angles rounded, genae dis- 

 tinctly auriculate and in the shape of a moderately sharp, broad 

 triangle ; the anterior median part of clypeus is impressed, and 

 immediately behind this impression there is a very slight elevation, 

 the frontal transverse impressed line is very distinct and nearly 

 straight ; prothorax slightly ampliate laterally from the anterior 

 ano-le to past the median part, and obliquely attenuate tow^ards the 

 basal part which is marginate, although not very distinctly, and bi- 

 sinuate, it is finely punctulate laterally, but the median part is only 

 very obsoletely aciculate, and almost smooth ; scutellum somewhat 

 elongate, impunctate ; elytra oblong, convex, very finely striate with 

 the strite shallow and apparently impunctate, intervals plane, im- 

 punctate, seventh stria reaching only the median part of the humeral 

 callus, eighth interrupted towards the base for about one-fifth of the 

 length, ninth longer than the eighth and uniting with the marginal 

 one under the humeral callus ; under side normal ; anterior tibiaa 

 tri-dentate outwardly, teeth strong, long. 



Length 5 mm. ; width 2 mm. 



I have only seen one of Boheman's types. This author gives as its 

 habitat the whole of Caffraria, which at that time was meant by him 

 to include part of Natal, the Free State, the Transvaal, and a part of 



