1908.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 631 



side and covered with irregularly set punctures somewhat deep and 

 more crowded laterally in the anterior part ; scutellum extremely 

 long and sharp, concave and sub-coriaceous ; elytra somewhat 

 depressed near the scutellary region, very finely striate punctulate, 

 with the intervals plane and finely aciculate, the two outer striae 

 are of equal length, but are interrupted at a distance from the base 

 nearly opposite the lateral sinuation, and the two preceding ones 

 (sixth and seventh) reach only the humeral callus ; pygidium finely 

 punctulate, sparsely pilose ; pectus very closely punctate, but the 

 median part of the metasternum is quite smooth, the legs are almost 

 impunctate except for a few setigerous punctures ; anterior tibiae 

 strongly tri-dentate. 



Length 13 mm. ; width 6 mm. 



This species, which inhabits Senegal and Abyssinia, was recorded 

 by Boheman from the Orange Eiver. My example is from Southern 

 Ehodesia, Sebakwe. It is very closely allied to 0. senegalensis, 

 Klug., but the clypeus is more broadly truncate in front than in 

 examples of the latter from Senegambia ; in the $ the anterior part 

 of the prothorax is not sub-excavate, the punctuation is broader, 

 and the punctures are much more numerous on the prothorax. 



Aphodius minatoPvIUS, n. sp. 



Brick-red, somewhat shiny, glabrous, clypeus slightly infuscate, 

 broadly emarginate in the centre from side to side, very oblique 

 laterally towards the gense, the latter very sharply triangular, pro- 

 jecting much, and conspicuously impressed on the upper side, in 

 the centre of the head are three very plain tubercles disposed trans- 

 versely and with the median one more developed than the others, 

 the surface of both head and clypeus is very sparsely and weakly 

 punctate ; prothorax slightly narrower at the apex than at the base, 

 and having in the anterior part a very shallow impression with two 

 diverging very slightly raised and not very plain longitudinal areas, 

 it is covered with plain simple punctures somewhat irregularly dis- 

 posed and separated by an interval larger than their diameter, these 

 punctures are getting more remote towards the central part ; scutel- 

 lum sharply triangular, nearly impunctate ; elytra twice as long as 

 the prothorax, deeply striate but the striae not very distinctly punc- 

 tate and the intervals plane, the seventh stria reaches the apex only 

 of the humeral callus, and the eighth reaches short of the base by 

 about one-fourth of the length, the ninth unites with the marginal 

 below the humeral callus ; anterior tibiae toi-dentate and slightly 

 crenulate above the teeth. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Sebakwe). 



