954 COLEOPTERA 



basal and four terminal joints, and maxillary palpi, pitchy-brown ; 

 clothed with yellowish and greyish hairs, the former conspicuous, 

 the elytra with some black hairs. 



Head densely and coarsely punctated. Anteyincs with black hairs, 

 joints 8-1 o transversal, eleventh rounded, the seventh, however, not 

 very much smaller than the eighth, but differently formed. Thorax 

 considerably contracted towards the front, sides not distinctly 

 marginated and a little rounded, the base moderately prolonged over 

 the scutellum ; its punctation moderately close and coarse, but 

 much finer and more remote before the basal lobe. Elytra sculp- 

 tured like the thorax, the punctures finer and more distant behind. 



Like T. mcssta (No. 428), the punctation finer, and the colora- 

 tion and pubescence dissimilar. 



Length, i|- lines ; breadth, f . 



Habitat, near Howick. 



Group— COPRID-ffi . 



Saphobius (p- ^55)- 



1720. S- squamulosus, n.s. Sub-quadrate, clothed with 

 elongate, hair-like, fulvous scales ; sub-opaque, piceous, legs and 

 tarsi dark-red, antennae and palpi fulvescent. 



Head with the frontal protuberances rather small ; eyes small. 

 Thorax strongly transverse, its sides but little curved and not per- 

 ceptibly angulated near the front. Elytra feebly striate. Pygidium 

 somewhat inflexed. Underside black. 



The squamosity is easily rubbed off, and is ordinarily mingled 

 with sappy matter ; these quite conceal the sculpture of the head 

 and thorax, which consists of oviform linear impressions with a 

 small puncture in the centre of each. 



Length, if lines ; breadth, ^. 



Taken amongst decaying leaves on the ground near Howick. 



Group-APHODIID-ffi. 



Aphodius (p- 257). 



1721. A. fortipeSj '^-5. Parallel, narrow, moderately convex, 

 shining, pitchy-black, margins of head and thorax and the legs red ; 

 tarsi, antennae, and palpi fulvous. 



Head minutely and distantly punctured. Thorax transversely 

 quadrate, scvilptured like the head, and having, in addition, a few 

 large, scattered punctures between the middle and the base. Scu- 

 tellum elongate. Elytra strongly punctate-striate, interstices broad 

 and very finely punctured, humeral angles dentiform. Legs stout, 

 tibiae expanded apically, the three external teeth of the anterior 

 acute and curved, the inner spur of the other two pairs as long as 

 the two basal joints of the tarsi. Underside finely and remotely 

 punctured, the apical ventral segment more closely, the base of all 

 the segments with a row of coarse, shallow punctures. 



Differs from A. communis in having the head much more finely 



