384 Transactions South African Philosoj^hical Society, [vol. xii. 



Aphodius connexus, Klug, 



Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 656 ; Peters' Eeis., 1862, p. 245, 



pi. xiv., fig. 9. 



Fuscous brown, with a light olivaceous tinge, slightly pale 

 testaceous on the sides of the prothorax, and having on each 

 elytron a pale testaceous, sometimes indistinct band running on 

 the second interval from the base to three-fourths of the length, 

 extending transversely there on the two following intervals, then 

 produced longitudinally again on the other two adjoining, and from 

 there curving towards the outer margin ; gense projecting slightly 

 only above the eye and in a line with the lateral part of the clypeus 

 which is straight in the anterior part, without the slightest trace of 

 sinuation, there is an impressed transverse line on the head which is 

 very faintly punctate ; prothorax marginate laterally only, sides 

 parallel with the basal angle well defined, base slightly bi-sinuate ; it 

 is little convex, densely punctulate laterally, but very little in the 

 median part ; striae of elytra fine, yet deep, with the punctures not 

 very distinct, intervals nearly plane, impunctate ; the seventh stria 

 reaches only to the apex of the humeral callus, the eighth and ninth 

 are of equal length and are obliterated at about one-fifth of the 

 length ; metasternum normal ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate. 



Length 8J- mm. ; width IJ mm. 



The general facies and the pattern of the elytra very closely 

 resemble those of A. lanuginosus, but it is at once distinguished 

 from it by being glabrous, not deeply punctate on the prothorax, nor 

 on the intervals of elytra. 



The type is the only example of this species which I have seen. 



Hah. Mozambique (Sena). 



Aphodius amcenus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 354. ~ 

 A. vestitns, Bohem., loc. cit., p. 359. 



Piceous black, sometimes piceous red, shining, somewhat pubes- 

 cent, the pubescence is erect and dense on the elytra ; the sides of 

 the prothorax are brownish red, and on the elytra there are four 

 elongato-quadrate reddish or testaceous patches nearly always 

 coalescing at about the median part, and often invading nearly the 

 whole of the disk, leaving only a quadrate median black patch and 

 a small basal and an outer marginal black band, the anterior margin 

 of the prothorax is also occasionally reddish ; the antennae are sub- 



