﻿APHOTAENIUS, A NEW DUNG SETTLE — CARTWRIGHT 183 



length. Terminal tarsal joint about as long as two preceding com- 

 bined, claws minute. Length, 2.75 mm. 



Holofype. — In California Academy of Sciences, No. 2549. 



Type locality. — Black Mountains, N. C. 



Remarks. — Aphofaenius carolinus is a common species in deer drop- 

 pings in June in Pisgah Forest, near Brevard, N. C, and w\as taken 

 there as early as April 29 and as late as September 10. It has been 

 taken in sheep droppings on Sassafras Mountain, S. C. ; in rather old 

 cow dung in woods near Pine Mountain, Ga.; and in the same in 

 I'On Swamp, Fair Lawn Plantation, 7 miles from Awendaw, near 

 Charleston, S. C. Mark Robinson and I collected several specimens 

 at the last-named place on June 4, 1948. These were the first seen from 

 other than mountain localities, except possibly a single specimen in 

 the M. A. Cazier collection bearing an old and very doubtful label, 

 "Key West, Fla." Recently a single specimen was found in an early 

 private collection of H. S. Barber, which liad been determined by 

 E. A. Schwarz as "Aphodius n. sp." This specimen bears label data 

 as follows : "Marlboro, Md. May 13. Collection H. S. Barber/' It 

 was probably collected between 1898 and 1901. 



Still more recently I found a specimen in the Blatchley collection 

 at Purdue University. This specimen of Aphotaenius caroU'rms was 

 collected in Crawford County, Ind., May 19, 1903, by W. S. Blatchley 

 and was erroneously reported as Ataenius lecontei Harold in his 

 "Catalogue of the Coleoptera in Indiana." 



APHOTAENIUS COLOMBIENSIS, new species 



Piceous black, shining, anterior margin of head and thorax and legs 

 reddish, antennae and palpi testaceous. Head about three-fourths 

 as wide as pronotum, strongly convex, basally with a band of close 

 moderate punctures, front with more widely spaced fine to minute 

 punctures ; clypeus slightly depressed and emarginate at middle with 

 a low angulation or denticle each side, lateral margins finely reflexed, 

 genae bent down as in Ataenius., margin between denticles flattened 

 and dorsally angulately widened to twice the height of the denticles, 

 this appearing as a carina from directly above, lower edge of widened 

 margin, invisible from above, with a small median angulation in 

 the opposite direction. Pronotum convex, laterally and basally mar- 

 gined, not fimbriate, anterior angles obtusely rounded, posterior angles 

 truncate-obtuse, slightly depressed, base distinctly lobed medially, 

 surface with mixed fine and coarse punctures, the latter generally 

 distributed but closer laterally, separated by one to four or five diam- 

 eters on the disc. Elytra convex, deeply striate, striae coarsely 

 crenately punctate, intervals weakly convex, with scattered minute 

 punctures. Mesosternum closely moderately punctate. Metaster- 



