1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 385 



rufescent ; head somewhat deeply punctate along the base and 

 finely aciculate on the clypeus, which is slightly emarginate in 

 front in the male but hardly so in the female, and attenuate 

 diagonally from the gense which do not project at all beyond the 

 eye, the margin of the clypeus is distinctly reflexed, the median 

 anterior part is depressed, and in the centre of it there is a very 

 slight, sub-conical protuberance in the male only, and a moderately 

 distinct impressed transverse line above the basal part ; prothorax 

 sub-parallel laterally at a short distance from the anterior part, not 

 marginate along the base which is only very slightly sinuate on 

 each side of the median part, it is only slightly convex, the sides 

 are deeply punctured, but the punctures are not closely set, 

 and they are only a few of them irregularly scattered over the 

 discoidal part which is nearly impunctate in the centre ; scu- 

 tellum moderately long, impunctate ; elytra oblong, very deeply 

 punctato-striate, the punctures in the striae are strong, deep, 

 and setigerous, the intervals are convex, the sixth stria reaches 

 the base, the eighth and ninth commingle and join the outer 

 margin below the humeral prominence which is here very lateral,, 

 but at some distance from the base ; under side, especially the 

 abdomen, clothed with a long pubescence, metasternum normal ;, 

 anterior tibias tri-dentate. 



The type of A. vestitus is a female in which the black colour has 

 entirely disappeared on the elytra, except along the suture, which is 

 fuscous. 



Length 4|~5 mm. ; width 2|-2|- mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Griqualand West, Carnarvon), Natal (Pine 

 Town, Estcourt, Durban, Frere), Transvaal (Johannesburg), Southern 

 Rhodesia (Salisbury). 



Aphodius lanuginosus, n. spec. 



Light olivaceous fuscous, with the sides of the prothorax, the 

 alternate intervals of elytra in the dorsal part as well as a transverse, 

 bi-sinuate posterior band on each elytron flavous ; clypeus not sinuate 

 at apex, and attenuate diagonally laterally from the basal angle of the 

 genae which project distinctly beyond the eye, and marginate all 

 round, the head is closely and deeply punctured, and clothed with a 

 brief but dense pubescence ; prothorax little convex, nearly parallel 

 laterally, bi-sinuate along the base which is not marginate, very 

 closely punctured, and densely pubescent ; scutellum moderately 

 long, impunctate except at the extreme base ; elytra oblong, but 



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