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the anterior part, but there is a round humeral black patch on the 

 callus, and the whole of the posterior half is black ; metasternum 

 with a deep longitudinal impressed line, plane in the female, deeply 

 impressed in the male. In the latter the punctures of the striaB are 

 a little deeper than in the female. 



Length 9-11 mm, ; width 5-6 mm. 



Hab. Southern Khodesia (Victoria Falls). 



Aphodius emekitus, n. spec. 



Glabrous, reddish brown with the lateral part of the prothorax 

 and also of the elytra somewhat testaceous or lighter browm ; 

 antennae brownish red, clava sub-infuscate ; head finely and closely 

 punctulate ; clypeus very little sinuate in the male in front, and not at 

 all in the female the gense of which are nearly straight, but are a little 

 ampliate and bulging beyond the line of the clypeus in the male, in 

 both sexes there is a slight elevation in the centre of the head, and 

 in the male a transverse supra-basal impressed line ; prothorax 

 moderately convex, slightly attenuate laterally in front, nearly 

 straight from there towards the base which is distinctly not mar- 

 ginate, but is sinuate on each side of the median part, the surface 

 is impunctate, and in the centre of the anterior part there is a 

 moderately deep impression a little deeper in the male than in the 

 female ; scutellum moderately long, lanceolate, and impunctate ; 

 elytra oblong, but a little sinuate laterally beyond the humeral part, 

 finely punctato-striate in the male, while in the female the punctua- 

 tion of the striae is hardly visible, the intervals are plane and 

 impunctate, the sixth stria reaches the base, but the eighth and ninth 

 are of nearly equal length, and are obliterated towards the base for 

 about one-quarter of the length ; metasternum smooth, deeply 

 grooved longitudinally in both sexes, but more depressed in the male 

 than in the female ; sides of abdomen slightly pubescent ; anterior 

 tibiae strongly tri-dentate outwardly. 



Length 12-14 mm. ; width 6-6^ mm. 



Hab. Southern Ehodesia (Upper Limpopo, and between the 

 Zambesi and Limpopo Eivers). 



Aphodius valens, n. spec. 



Fuscous, glabrous, shining, clypeus not sinuate in front, genie in 

 .a line laterally with the clypeus and forming at the base a very sharp 



