392 Transactio7is South African Philosophical Society, [vol. xii. 



infuscate ; clypeus more sinuate than emarginate, anterior lateral 

 part rounded, genae projecting, bluntly triangular, basal angle in a 

 line with the eye which projects beyond it, anterior median part of 

 clypeus impressed, median part of head with an elongate tubercle, or 

 rather elevation, culminating on the median transverse line which is 

 slightly raised on each side near the eye, the surface of the head is 

 very faintly punctulate ; prothorax little convex, sub-parallel ; base 

 very oblique laterally, distinctly bi-sinuate, and not distinctly 

 carinate, it is very little convex, deeply but not closely punctured 

 on the sides, and has a longitudinal median impunctate space ; 

 scutellum moderately long, impunctate ; elytra oblong, deeply 

 punctato-striate ; the punctures are deep and closely set, the 

 intervals are moderately plane in the dorsal part, but very distinctly 

 convex in the posterior, the sixth and seventh strige stop at a short 

 distance from the base, the seventh is depressed above the eighth 

 which is obliterated for about one-iifth of the length, and the ninth 

 unite with the marginal one at the apex of the humeral callus ; 

 under side normal ; anterior tibiae tri- dentate outwardly, teeth 

 moderately long and strong. 



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



Hah, Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch^ Paarl, Malmes- 

 hury, Worcester), Mozambique (Louren^o-Marquez). 



In the examples from Mozambique the intervals of the elytra are 

 convex in the dorsal part. 



Aphodius intercalaeis, n. spec. 



Eesembles very much A. consimilis in colour, shape, and sculp- 

 ture. It is, however, a little larger, the frontal tubercle is much 

 more conspicuous, the punctures on the prothorax are much more 

 numerous, smaller and more shallow, but the main difference is 

 found in the intervals of the elytra, which are strongly costate, 

 sharply tectiform, punctulate, except in the carinate part, while the 

 narrow but deep striae show no sign of punctures even laterally, the 

 abbreviated striae are interrupted in the same manner, the head is 

 closely punctate. 



I have seen a large example of this species in which the punctures 

 on the yrothorax are reduced to a mere aciculation, while in another 

 example from the same locality the punctures are more numerous 

 than in the normal form. 



Length 6-7 mm. ; width 2J-3^ mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Hope Town, Kimberley, Bushmanland). 



