380 Transactions South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



Protliorax not mucli aciculate, except laterally, intervals 

 moderately sharp, not punctate, striee geminate, body 

 slightly pubescent puberultis. 



Prothorax aciculate, costae tectiform, intervals punctulate, 



strise not geminate, body non-pubescent medioximiis. 



B^ Anterior tibiae not serrate above the digits. 



Intervals of elytra very sharp, striae filled with a series of 



broad foveate punctures costipennis. 



ApHODIUS (CoLOBOPTERUS) MAEGINICOLIilS, Har., 



Berl. Entom. Zeitschr., 1859, p. 204. 



Little shining, very briefly and sparsely pubescent on the upper 

 part ; head black or deep fuscous ; prothorax black, edged with a 

 very broad flavescent lateral margin ; elytra brown with the sides 

 somewhat pale testaceous ; antennse flavescent ; scutellum black ; 

 head slightly aciculate, clypeus very slightly sinuate in front and 

 very slightly marginate, genae ampliate, rounded, but bulging 

 beyond the line of the clypeus, there is no clypeal or frontal trans- 

 verse impressed line or carina, and in the male there is in the centre 

 a short tubercle, and behind it, but near the base, a short, trans- 

 verse impressed line ; prothorax moderately convex, a little 

 diagonal laterally in front for about one-third of the length, straight 

 from there if seen from above, slightly notched at the rounded 

 part, slightly yet distinctly marginate along the base which is not 

 sinuate, covered with very closely set, nearly contiguous round 

 punctures, and having a longitudinal, median impressed line running 

 on the posterior part of the disk ; scutellum very long, depressed, 

 sharply triangular, and carinate longitudinally in the middle ; elytra 

 gradually narrowed from the base towards the apex, moderately 

 plane, extending beyond the pygidium which is vertical and 

 strongly developed, they are geminato-striate, the striae are impunc- 

 tate and deep, and the intervals are densely aciculate and sub-tecti- 

 form in the dorsal part, the sixth stria reaches the base, the humeral 

 callus is very prominent, and the eighth and ninth strise, which are 

 of equal length, are obliterated towards the base for one-fourth of the 

 length ; under side pubescent ; metasternum with a distinct longi- 

 tudinal impressed line and no depression ; anterior tibias strongly 

 tri-dentate outwardly, apical spur very long, projecting beyond the 

 apical outer tooth and strongly curved outwardly. 



Length 7J-8 mm. ; width 3-J mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Worcester, Beaufort West, Kimberley, 



