1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 403 



laterally ; scutellum moderately long, impunctate ; elytra oblong, 

 crenato-striate, with the intervals distinctly convex and tectiform 

 laterally and behind, seventh stria reaching only to the median part 

 of the humeral callus, eighth and ninth of equal length and sloping 

 far from the base, the latter is quite disconnected from the 

 marginal stria ; metasternum normal ; anterior tibiae strongly tri- 

 dentate and incised above the basal digit. 



Female : Shape of head, clypeus and genae similar to that of the 

 male, but instead of a recurved horn there is a distinct median 

 elevation, and the intra-ocular impressed line is better defined; the 

 prothorax is simple and much more closely punctured ; the elytra 

 are less deeply crenato-striate, although the intervals are equally 

 convex, but a little broader, and not tectiform laterally ; the anterior 

 tibiae are hardly incised above the basal digit. 



Length 8-9 mm. ; width 39-4 J- mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban, Maritzburg), Transvaal (Zoutpansberg), 

 Southern Ehodesia (Buluwayo, Enkeldoorn, Salisbury), Cape 

 •Colony (Worcester). 



Aphodius procerus, Harold, 

 Berl. Entom. Zeit., 1862, p. 168. 



Light brown, darker on the discoidal part of the prothorax and 

 also on the basal part of the head, moderately shining on head and 

 prothorax, somewhat opaque on the elytra ; antennae brownish ; 

 ■clypeus broadly emarginate, in the male the emargination is deeper, 

 genae triangular, with the apical part of the triangle projecting 

 much beyond the eye, the whole head is closely punctulate, and the 

 edge of the clypeus distinctly marginate, there is a transverse, 

 very distinct, clypeal carina extending over one-third of the width, 

 and three transverse equi-distant tubercles between the eyes ; 

 prothorax moderately convex, nearly parallel, marginate all round, 

 sinuate in the base on each side of the median part, having a 

 shallow, transverse impression in the anterior, with a very faint 

 impressed line abutting on it and disappearing before reaching the 

 centre, it is irregularly and not deeply punctate ; scutellum some- 

 what short, punctate laterally ; elytra very elongate, oblong, but a 

 little sinuate laterally towards the median part, convex, punctato- 

 striate with the punctures deep and contiguous, intervals very 

 slightly convex, sixth stria reaching the base along the humeral 

 callus, eighth slightly shorter than the seventh which reaches only 

 the apical part of the callus, ninth reaching the humeral part where 

 it merges into the margin ; abdomen briefly pubescent, pectus 



