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described as being larger, with three tubercles on the head, and 
the basal margin of the prothorax entire. 
The scutellum is moderately small (about the same size as in 
A. Howitti, Hope), and is concave and punctured in the basal 
part ; the hind tibiz are fringed with both long and short bristles ; 
the prothoracic border extends along the base, on either side, 
very little within the hind angles, which are roundly obtuse; the 
legs are comparatively long and slender, the hind tibie only 
very moderately dilated at the apex, with their two transverse 
keels well marked (the lower one the stronger of the two) ; the 
elytra are roundly obtuse at the shoulders (much as in A. Howittz); 
the prothorax is nearly levigate on a wide space down the 
middle. The markings on the elytra consist of longitudinal 
piceous blotches, and are scarcely marked in the type; probably 
they vary. 
S. Australia; a single example from the Port Lincoln 
district. 
N.B.—A very small example of Aphodius (long., 2 1.) in the 
S. A. Museum,—locality unknown,—scarcely differs from this 
species ; it has a scarcely traceable indication of a tubercle on 
either side of the forehead, and may be the male. 
ATANIUS. 
A. mendax, sp. nov. Sat angustus ; parallelus ; nitidus, niger; 
vel nigro-fuscus, pedibus dilutioribus, clypei marginibus 
antennisque testaceis ; clypeo rotundato-emarginato ; capite 
sat crebre sat fortiter punctulato, prothorace zequali dupliciter 
(subtiliter et sat crasse) nec rugulose punctulato; elytris 
sulcatis, sulcis catenulato-punctulatis, interstitiis carinatis 
sparsim subtilissime punctulatis, humeris dentatis. Long., 
1415 lat. 1 
Near A. australis, Har., but differing in the much less close 
puncturation of the head and prothorax, in the absence from the 
latter of any trace of a median channel, and in the narrower 
sulci of the elytra. 
Victoria ; taken in Fern Gully by Mr. French. 
A. torridus, sp. nov. Angustus; parallelus; nitidus rufo- 
brunneus ; clypeo rotundato-emarginato ; capite in medio 
gibboso, antice vix perspicue postice et ad latera distincte 
sat crebre punctulato; prothorace quali, dupliciter 
(subtiliter et subfortiter) nec rugulose punctulato; elytris 
sulcatis, sulcis catenulato-punctulatis ; interstitiis vix 
perspicue punctulatis, humeris dente perparvo armatis. 
Long., 12 1. 5 ‘lat., 4 1. (vix). 
A very small species not closely resembling any of its 
previously described Australian congeners. I have compared it 
