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Length 5-5^ mm. ; width 21-2i- mm. 



Hah. Natal (Estcourt), Transvaal (Johannesburg), Southern ' 

 Ehodesia (Enkeldoorn), Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, 

 Paarl). 



Aphodius dorsalis, Klug, 



Monatsb. Berl. Ac, 1855, p. 656; Peters' Eeis., 1862, p. 245, 



pi. xiv., fjg. 8. 



Glabrous, shining, head and prothorax piceous red with the 

 clypeus, and the sides of the prothorax testaceous red, or some- 

 times flavous ; elytra yellow with a narrow sutural piceous band 

 dilated a little towards the scutellum ; clypeus nearly straight at 

 apex, hardly sinuate, and with the angles much rounded, oblique 

 laterally, genae nearly straight, scarcely bulging, whole surface of head 

 finely and closely punctured ; in the median part there is a slight 

 protuberance, and the transverse impressed line between the eyes is 

 slight ; prothorax sub-parallel, hardly oblique laterally towards the 

 base which is marginate, finely and closely punctulate on the sides 

 but not in the median dorsal part ; scutellum moderately long, im- 

 punctate ; elytra very finely and not deeply striate, striae slightly 

 punctulate, and obliterated at a short distance from the apex, while 

 towards the base the ninth stria, which is a little longer than the 

 eighth, does not unite with the marginal one, and the sixth and 

 seventh reach only the apex of the humeral callus ; the intervals 

 are plane even in the posterior part, and the punctures on the striae 

 are more distinct in the lateral parts ; abdomen nearly glabrous ; 

 anterior tibiae tri-dentate outwardly and pluri-serrate above the outer 

 teeth. 



Length 4J mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hah. Natal (Frere). 



I have not been able to examine Klug's type, and it is quite 

 possible that my example, which is quite similar to Boheman's and 

 agrees with his description, except that it is a little larger, may not 

 prove to be Klug's species. In the figure given by the latter the 

 clypeus is distinctly emarginate, which is not the case in Boheman's 

 type, or in my example. 



Aphodius mashunensis, n. spec. 



Chestnut brown, glabrous, shining ; head oblique laterally from the 

 basal angle of the genae which project very little above the eye and 



