1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoi^tera of South Africa. 397 



there are no loDgitudinal, lateral caringe on the clypeus, the striae on 

 the elytra are deeply punctured, but not deeply crenulate as in 

 A. bohemani, and the intervals are also a little less raised, and 

 owing to the striae not being so deeply crenulate they do not look as 

 if they were as highly raised as in the latter. 



Length 5-6 mm. ; width 2-3f mm. 



Hab. Cape Colony (Carnarvon, Clanwilliam). 



Aphodius impurus, Eoth., 

 Wiegm. Arch., 1850, i., p. 131. 

 A. picijjes, Klug, Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 656. 



Black or piceous black, shining, glabrous, palpi and antennae 

 rufescent, club of the latter flavescent, abdomen slightly pubescent ; 

 clypeus deeply emarginate at tip, and with the angles of the 

 emargination somewhat angular, sides very oblique, genae triangular, 

 not very sharp and with the basal part not projecting at right angles 

 above the eye ; head closely punctulate, impressed in the anterior 

 part, and bearing in the centre a longitudinal tubercle and a smaller 

 one on each side close to the eye, where the tubercles are not very 

 developed in the male ; in the female there is also a more or less 

 well-defined transverse ridge ; prothorax sub-parallel, but very 

 oblique laterally towards the base which is not marginate, it is 

 covered with round, deep punctures scattered about the disk, and a. 

 little denser on the sides, they are more numerous in the female 

 examples, and in some males are almost entirely absent in the 

 median part ; scutellum moderately long, triangular and deeply 

 impressed longitudinally in the centre ; elytra deeply striate, striae 

 closely but not very deeply punctate and reaching the apex, intervals 

 smooth, not convex in the anterior part, but distinctly so in the 

 posterior, sixth and seventh striae interrupted near the base, where 

 they reach only the median part of the humeral callus, eighth 

 obliterated at about one-fifth of the length, ninth uniting with the 

 marginal one, but punctulate only as far as the obliterated part of 

 the eighth ; under side normal, anterior tibiae with two distinct 

 serrations above the digits. 



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



Hab. Cape Colony (Somerset East, Beaufort West, Worcester), 

 Natal (Estcourt, Umvoti), Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



This species is also met with in Abyssinia, Nubia, Zanzibar,. 

 Madagascar, Mozambique, and the Guinea Coast. 



