1900.] Catalogue of the Colcoptcm of South Africa. 393 



ArHODius ANOMALiPUS, n. spec. 



Pale testaceous yellow, shining, glabrous, elytra with the suture 

 and a posterior marginal band nearly black ; clypeus punctate, 

 deeply emarginate in front, very oblique laterally, genas not pro- 

 jecting, rounded, margin slightly reflexed, it is impressed in 

 front, median part of the head with a very distinct, longitudinal 

 tubercle, no transverse line or carina across the eyes, basal part of 

 head impunctate ; prothorax very little convex, nearly parallel 

 laterally and produced very obliquely towards the base which is not 

 marginate, impunctate in the middle, and with a few scattered 

 punctures laterally, base strongly sinuate on each side of the 

 median part ; elytra oblong, a little amphate for one-quarter of 

 the length, convex, distinctly punctato-striate with the intervals 

 smooth, somewhat convex, and sub-carinate in the posterior part, 

 sixth and seventh striae stopping a little short of the base, eighth 

 reaching only from the apex to three-fourths of the length, ninth 

 uniting with the marginal one at a short distance from the base 

 under the humeral callus ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate outwardly, but 

 with the apical tooth very long and nearly straight, the inner 

 part is almost straight, and the spur instead of being apical is set at 

 about the median part in a line with the basal outer tooth, and is 

 very long ; metasternum normal ; pygidium fringed at apex with 

 very long hairs. 



Length 7 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



I have seen only two examples of this species, the identity of 

 which can easily be ascertained by the shape of the anterior tibiae. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Kimberley). 



Aphodius serenus, n. spec. 



Fuscous brown on the head, prothorax, under side, and sides of 

 prothorax narrowly rufescent, elytra pale testaceous and with 

 a discoidal longitudinal broad band slightly infuscate ; head very 

 closely punctured, clypeus blunt, very slightly emarginate at tip, 

 very oblique laterally from the outer angle of the gense which 

 project much, and nearly, but not quite, at right angles with the hne 

 of the eye, there is a very distinct, arcuate median ridge, and three 

 short but distinct frontal tubercles ; prothorax a little attenuate 

 laterally in the anterior part, feebly sinuate a little past the middle, 

 very distinctly oblique towards the basal part which is very sinuate 

 on each side of the median part, and is distinctly marginate ; the 

 whole surface is covered with fine, very dense punctures ; scutellum 



