402 Transactions South African Philosophical Society. I vol. xii. 



the median part of the base, finely but deeply punctured, the 

 punctures being nearly equally distributed over the whole surface, 

 scutellum moderately long, sharply triangular at apex, punctulate, 

 not impressed ; elytra finely and not deeply punctato-striate with the 

 intervals plane, impunctate, and somewhat convex in the posterior 

 part, the seventh and eighth striae are united above the apex, the 

 sixth and seventh reach only to the median part of the humeral callus, 

 and the eighth is interrupted towards the base for about one-quarter 

 of the length ; pectus nearly black, abdomen briefly pubescent ; 

 anterior tibiae tri-dentate and with two serrate teeth above the 

 digits. 



Length 5J- mm. ; width 2f mm. 



Allied to A. discoidalis, but differentiated by the intervals of the 

 elytra which are costate in the posterior part, by the presence 

 of a discoidal slightly fuscous band, and by the seventh and 

 eighth striae being united behind, instead of the fifth and sixth as in 

 A. discoidalis. 



Von Harold has evidently ma.de a mistake in considering this 

 species to be identical with A. hepaticus, Eoth., and the description 

 of the latter as given by him does not in the least agree either with 

 Boheman's description or with Boheman's type. 



Hah. Natal (Estcourt). Neighbourhood of the Limpopo Eiver 

 according to Boheman. 



Aphodius ehinoceeos, Eeiche, 

 Voyag. Galin. Abyss. Ent., p. 343. 



A. armatus, Koth., Wiegm. Arch., 1851, i., p. 130. 



Ferruginous red, shining, glabrous ; the two sexes are very 

 •distinct, the male is generally smellier, and the armature of the 

 head and prothorax are quite different from that of the female. 



Male : Clypeus broadly but very slightly emarginate, lateral part 

 very oblique, genae auriculate, sub-triangular, with the apical part of 

 the triangle obtuse, rounded; head vaguely punctulate, and having 

 in the centre a short, yet very conspicuous recurved horn, the third 

 basal part of which, as usual in Aphodius, abuts on a nearly obsolete 

 intra-ocular impressed line ; prothorax very convex, sub-obliquely 

 declivous in the anterior part which is deeply impressed, almost 

 excavated, the apical part of the excavation is more or less sharply 

 bi-tuberculate, the sides are sub-parallel, and rounded, not oblique 

 towards the base, the impression is obsoletely punctate, but the sides 

 and dorsal part have a few punctures which are more closely set 



