1900.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 395- 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cciniavvon). It is also found in Senegal and 

 on the Guinea Coast. 



Aphodius moestus, Fabric, 



Syst. Eleut., i., 78, p. 45. 



Straw-colour, shining, glabrous, whole posterior part of the head 

 as well as a median patch on the clypeus black, prothorax with a 

 broad median piceous black patch occupying the whole of the 

 median part, scutellum piceous, the suture is also piceous, and there 

 is a longitudinal band of the same colour on the fourth and sixth 

 intervals, which in the case of the former begins at about the 

 median part and does not quite reach the posterior declivity, while 

 on the sixth it begins under the humeral callus and reaches beyond 

 the median part ; pectus piceous red ; clypeus blunt at tip and 

 hardly sinuate there, very diagonal laterally, gense auriculate, sub- 

 triangular, in the median part there is a slightly tuberculate 

 elevation and behind it a faintly impressed transverse line between 

 the eyes, the clypeus is not depressed in the anterior part, and the 

 whole surface is closely aciculate ; prothorax a little attenuate 

 laterally in front, sub-parallel and not very obliquely produced 

 towards the base, which is distinctly sinuate on each side of the 

 median part and is not marginate, the surface is covered with 

 numerous punctures not much denser on the sides than on the disk, 

 and not very closely set ; scutellum moderately long, longitudinally 

 impressed in the centre ; elytra oblong, not very sensibly ampliate 

 from before the median part, striate, striae not deeply punctate, 

 and stopping at a long distance from the apex, eighth very 

 short, the first four from the suture are black from near the 

 base nearly to the rounded posterior part, intervals nearly plane 

 on the dorsal part, but a little convex laterally, sixth and 

 seventh striae of equal length and reaching just short of the 

 base, eighth obliterated towards the base for about one-third of 

 the length, ninth uniting with the marginal one under the 

 humeral callus ; metasternum normal ; anterior tibiae quadri- 

 dentate and not serrate above the basal outer tooth which is 

 much smaller than the others. 



Length 5i-6i mm. ; width 2i-3 mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Potchefstroom, Rustenburg) Mozambique 

 (Rikatla). 



This species occurs along the Eastern African Coast, and is found 

 also in Madagascar, India, and Ceylon. 



