1900.] Catalogue of the Goleoptera of SoutJi Africa. 417 



tubercle transversal ; prothorax short, rounded laterally, densely but 

 not equally punctate and with the larger punctures interspersed with 

 small ones ; elytra more than double the length of the prothorax, 

 hardly dilated past the middle, crenato-striate with the intervals 

 slightly convex and finely but distinctly punctate ; palpi and antennae 

 ferruginous ; under side ferruginous, metasternum plane, abdomen 

 brick-red ; legs also brick-red, the anterior ones, including the tibiae 

 and the tarsi, rufescent. 



Length 3^ lin. 



Hab. Cape of Good Hope." 



Aphodius centralis, Har., 

 Coleopt., Heft, iii., 1868, p. 84. 



" Shining, somewhat elongate, head nearly smooth, convex, un- 

 armed, clypeus sub-truncate, piceous red ; prothorax smooth in the 

 middle, sparsely punctate laterally, non-marginate at base, piceous 

 with the sides and the anterior margin rufescent ; elytra with the 

 sides and the posterior part densely set with rufous setae moderately 

 long, punctato-striate with the intervals slightly convex, and having 

 on each side, especially behind, a single series of punctures, they are 

 brick-red, with the suture and the outer margin infuscate, the suture 

 is broader and more piceous from behind the scutellum till the 

 median part, and the outer margin is also broader and more darkly 

 piceous at the middle ; legs brick-red, tibiae piceous red, antennae 

 brick-red. The colour is similar to that of A. quadrimaculatus or 

 A. rittatus, but it approximates still more A. rufopustulatus. 



Length 2f lin. 



Hob. South Africa." 



Aphodius fallax, Har., 

 Berl. Entom. Zeitschr., 1871, p. 281. 



" Elongato-ovate, little convex, shining, ferruginous, elytra testa- 

 ceous red ; head densely punctulate, frontal suture raised but not 

 tuberculate, vertex slightly swollen at middle, clypeus moderately 

 deeply emarginate, rounded on each side, genae obtusely rounded, 

 moderately prominent ; prothorax short, densely and equally punc- 

 tulate, sides ciliate ; scutellum triangular, smooth ; elytra slightly 

 crenato-striate, with the intervals convex, obsoletely punctulate and 

 pubescent towards the margins ; mesosternum non-carinate, meta- 



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