1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptcra of South Africa. 401 



above tliat a not very distinct transverse impressed line interrupted 

 in the middle ; prothorax punctulate all over but with the punctures 

 less numerous in the median part, nearly parallel and slightly 

 marginate along the base ; scutellum piceous, impunctate ; elytra 

 finely striate, strito finely punctate and reaching nearly to the apex, 

 fifth and sixth united above the apex, sixth and seventh reaching to 

 only the apex of the humeral callus, eighth obliterated towards the 

 base for about one-sixth of the length, ninth longer and uniting with 

 the marginal one under the shoulder, intervals plane, not convex 

 towards the apex, impunctate; metasternum normal, abdomen 

 densely pubescent ; anterior tibice tri-dentate outwardly, and having 

 two serrate teeth above the digits, these two serrate teeth are often 

 indistinct. 



Length 6-6^^ mm. ; width 2f mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Graham's 

 Town). 



In all my examples the outer margin of the elytra is scarcely 

 infuscate. 



Aphodius probes, n. spec. 



The description of A. discoidalis applies entirely to this species 

 which is, however, very much smaller, l)eing, with A. kirticeps, the 

 smallest species of the first division ; the .prothorax is a httle more 

 distinctly marginate in the centre of the base ; the elytra, the striae 

 and intervals of which are similar, have a triangular basal infuscate 

 patch along the scutellum, and the suture alone is infuscate, the 

 fifth and sixth striae unite also above the apex. 



Length 3 mm. ; w^idth If mm. 



Hab. Natal (Frere). . 



Aphodius pekegeixus, Bohem., 



Insect. CafTr., ii., p. 352. 



Light testaceous on the upper side with the head nearly black,, 

 and an almost quadrate, black patch on the median part of the 

 prothorax leaving on all sides a broad luteous band ; elytra with 

 a bngitudinal dorsal band slightly fuscous, scutellum and suture 

 black ; head slightly aciculate, clypeus not deeply emarginate, 

 angles moderately rounded and sides very oblique, genae rounded, 

 hardly projecting, central part of the head with a very slight 

 elevation close to the transverse impressed line which is nearly 

 obliterated ; prothorax sub-parallel, not distinctly marginate along 



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