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Aphodius nitidulus, Woll., Ins. Mad. 223 (1854). 

 :, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 78 (1857). 



Habitat insulas omnes Canarienses, in stercore bovino vulgaris. 

 This common European insect, which abounds throughout the 

 Madeiran Group, is universal at the Canaries — in the whole seven 

 islands of which I have myself taken it, more or less profusely. In 

 Lanzarote and Gomera it was also found by Mr. Gray ; and in Go- 

 mera and Teneriffe by Dr. Crotch. 



303. Aphodius taeniatus, n. sp. 



A. cylindricus, nitidissimus ; capite, prothorace (convexo, latiusculo, 

 leviter insequaUter punetato, versus latera sola paUidiore) elytrisque 

 late per suturam nigris ; clypeo ad latera picescente, recurvo ; ely- 

 trorum striis tenuibus, interstittis subdepressis minutissime et sat 

 dense punctulatis ; pedibus picescentibus, tarsis, antennis paljiisque 

 inf u scato-testaceis. 



Mas tubercuhs frontalibus (prsesertim medio) distinctioribus, protho- 

 race vix latiore subtiliusque punetato. — Long. corp. lin. 2-2^. 



Habitat Lanzarotam et Fuerteventuram, una cum A. Wollastonii 

 degens. 



The rather small size and cylindric outline of this Aphodius, in 

 conjunction with its very convex prothorax, which (together with the 

 head, scutellum, and a broad sutural band) is black except at the ex- 

 treme edges, its fine elytral strise, its somewhat more densely (though 

 equally minutely) punctulated interstices, and its rather darker femora 

 and tibiae, will serve to separate it from the other species here enu- 

 merated. In colouring and general aspect it resembles a good deal 

 the common European A. merdarius ; nevertheless it is a little larger, 

 more cylindric, and much more shining than that insect, its clypeus 

 (which is subpicescent) is more truncated at the apex and more re- 

 curved at the sides, its prothorax is more convex, its elytral inter- 

 stices more depressed, its head is broader and with the frontal suture 

 and tubercles (instead of being obsolete in both sexes) well deve- 

 loped in the males, and its antennae and palpi are paler. 



The A. tceniatus I have observed hitherto only in Lanzarote and 

 Fuerteventura, where it occurs, during the spring months, in com- 

 pany with the A. Wollastonii ; it is, however, the rarer of the two 

 species. 



304. Aphodius maculosus, n. sp, 



A. elongatus, nitidus ; capite lato piceo, clj^jeo (ante oculos angulato- 

 exstante) rufescentiore ; prothorace (sat profunde inaequaliter pune- 

 tato) fusco-piceo ad latera late (necnon saepius per basin ipsis- 

 simam anguste) testaceo et utrinque macula parva media nigres- 



