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and legs completely testaceous, anterior edge of the prothorax nar- 

 rowly infuscate or blackish, suture of elytra fuscous ; head con- 

 spicuously but not densely punctate ; edge of clypeus sub-refiexed, 

 marginate, plane, anterior margin slightly reflex ; prothorax plainly 

 punctate, the posterior angles obtusely rounded ; elytra moderately 

 highly carinate, the carinae glabrous, the intermediate striae deep 

 and punctulate. 



Length 2-|—2f mm. 



Hab. Kalahari." 



Gen. APHODIUS, Illig., 



Aphodius (Esimus) effetus, Kolb., 

 Loc. cit., p. 126. 



" Oblong, testaceous, shiny, head and prothorax brownish feri-u- 

 ginous, the former lighter coloured in front, the latter behind, suture 

 of elytra brown ; head shiny, finely and closely but not densely 

 punctate, clypeus sub-obtuse in the centre, very little emarginate, 

 rounded on each side ; prothorax moderately thickly punctate but 

 more densely so laterally, the posterior margin finely costulate, 

 posterior angles rounded ; scutellum elongate, parallel in front ; 

 elytra finely striate, the stria? finely punctate, the intervals smooth, 

 moderately plane, very finely and widely punctulate ; anterior tibiae 

 tri-dentate externally, simple above the teeth, the intermediate and 

 posterior clothed with short seta) alternating with longer ones. 



Length 3 mm. 



Hab. Great Namaqualand (Keetmanshoop)." 



Aphodius (Bodilus) kukubanus, Kolb., 

 Loc. cit., p. 127. 

 "Sub-elongate, moderately convex, fuscous, pronotum chestnut- 

 fuscous with the sides flavescent brown ; elytra testaceous, black 

 fuscous towards the suture ; pectus fuscous, abdomen ferruginous, 

 pygidium testaceous ; femora flavescent testaceous with the tibiae 

 chestnut-brown and the tarsi ferruginous ; head tri-tuberculate ; 

 clypeus roughly rugulose and punctate, anterior margin sub-obtuse 

 in the centre, very slightly sinuate, obtusely rounded and reflexed 

 on each side, the margin continued as a straight line on each side as 

 far as the gense ; frontal part transversely sub-carinate, and having 

 in the centre a tuberculate carina sub-tuberculate on each side, 

 numerously punctulate behind the carina and thence smooth ; pro- 

 thorax slightly attenuate in front, somewhat conspicuously narrower 

 than tlic elytra, the posterior margin entirely costulate as a pro- 



