390 Transactions So^itli African Philosopliical Society, [vol. xii. 



Southern Ehodesia. It is surprising that I should not have met 

 with this species among the many examples received from these 

 parts. ♦ 



Aphodius genialis, n. spec. 



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

 cent ; head impunctate, clypeus broadly and somewhat deeply 

 emarginate, obliquely attenuate laterally, but with the anterior 

 angles slightly angular, genae obliquely rounded, not at all angular, 

 median anterior part of clypeus somewhat deeply impressed, median 

 part of the head with a very slight protuberance in the male, hardly 

 distinct in the female, frontal line slightly carinate and moderately 

 distinct ; prothorax a little ampliate laterally at middle, but not 

 more attenuate in the posterior than in the anterior part, very little 

 convex, slightly emarginate along the base which is distinctly bi- 

 sinuate, the whole surface is impunctate ; scutellum moderately 

 long, impunctate ; elytra oblong, finely striate, striae not very 

 shallow, but indistinctly impunctate in the dorsal part, and very 

 feebly on the sides, intervals plane, smooth, eighth stria interrupted 

 towards the base for about one-sixth of the length, ninth very little 

 longer than the eighth and uniting with the marginal one, seventh 

 not reaching quite to the base ; under side normal, anterior tibia; 

 tri-dentate outwardly, teeth strong, long. 



Length 7-8 mm. ; width 3^-3i mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Worcester, 

 Malmesbury) . 



Closely allied to the preceding one, but larger, and differentiated 

 by the impunctate head and prothorax, as well as by the shape of 

 the genge, which are neither auriculate nor triangular. 



Aphodius decipiens, n. spec. 



Brick-red, with faint traces of slight infuscation on the sides of the 

 prothorax and elytra, shining, glabrous ; antenna? flavescent ; head 

 very finely yet distinctly aciculate all over, clypeus broadly and 

 moderately deeply emarginate, with the anterior part not quite 

 rounded, and the lateral quite obliquely attenuate from the apex of 

 the triangle formed by the genae., the median anterior part of the 

 clypeus is not deeply impressed, and there is no median elevation, 

 the transverse impressed frontal line is slightly arcuate ; prothorax 

 nearly parallel if seen from above, but distinctly produced diagonally 



