396 Transactions South African Philosoi^liical Society, [vol, xii. 



Aphodius bohemani, Har., 

 Berl. Entom. Zeit., 1862, p. 148. 

 A. f err ug incus, Bohem., Ins. Caffr., ii., p. 331. 



Shining, ferruginous red, glabrous, median part of head and pro- 

 thorax darker than the rest of the body ; antennae flavous ; head 

 •closely but not deeply punctured, clypeus deeply emarginate in 

 front, sides oblique, genge triangularly auricula.te, projecting much 

 beyond the eye, in the anterior part of the clypeus there is a deep 

 impression bounded behind by a short, transverse carina, and 

 immediately in front of this carina there is a conspicuous longi- 

 tudinally triangular tubercle, and on each side of it an oblique 

 longitudinal carina reaching from the frontal one to the apex 

 of the clypeus, the tubercle and the transverse line are nearly 

 as conspicuous in the female as in the male ; prothorax sub- 

 diagonally ampliated laterally from the apical angle to the middle, 

 slightly attenuate from there towards the basal part if seen from 

 above, not marginate along the base which is very slightly sinuate 

 on each side, evidently convex, and dotted over with a few, scattered, 

 not deep punctures a little more numerous as is usual on the lateral 

 part, and varying greatly in number in examples and sex from the 

 same locality ; scutellum moderately long, impunctate ; elytra 

 oblong, but slightly broader at a short distance from the humeral 

 part, very deeply crenato-striate by means of deep, somewhat broad 

 punctures, intervals impunctate, much raised, but rounded, not 

 tectiform even in the posterior part, sixth and seventh striae reaching 

 a little short of the base, eighth conspicuously short, ninth longer 

 than the eighth but united with the marginal one under the 

 humeral callus by an impunctate line ; metasternum normal ; 

 anterior tibiae strongly tri-dentate and with one distinct tooth above 

 the basal digit. 



Length 7-7^ mm. ; width 3-3 J mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury), Mozambique (Louren90- 

 Marquez), neighbourhood of Orange Eiver, teste Boheman, Senegal, 

 teste Harold. 



Aphodius rubricosus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 335. 



The description of A. hohemani suits this species completely, and 

 it can be differentiated by comparison only ; it is, however, smaller. 



