1900.] Catalogue of tJie Coleoptera of South Africa. 405 



the prothorax redder, the elytra are testaceous with the suture 

 sHghtly fuscous or ferruginous, and occasionally slightly infuscate 

 longitudinally on each side, and the under side is testaceous ; clypeus 

 slightly emarginate, angular on each side and sinuate laterally, 

 while the gense are sharply triangular and project very much, there 

 is a slight transverse impression in the anterior part of the clypeus, 

 no median elevation on the head which is very closely aciculate, and 

 there are three very minute tubercles between the eyes connected 

 by a slightly raised, sometimes nearly obliterated line ; prothorax as 

 in A. producttts, and equally punctured, but the base is less dis- 

 tinctly marginate at middle ; scutellum aciculate ; elytra briefly and 

 sparingly pubescent, finely and not deeply punctato-striate with 

 the intervals aciculate, plane, hardly costate behind, the striae are 

 free and reach close to the apex, but the sixth and seventh are 

 interrupted at the apex of the humeral callus, and the eighth is 

 shorter than the ninth which unites with the marginal one under 

 the shoulder ; anterior tibiae strongly tri-dentate outwardly, and 

 crenulate above the outer teeth. 



Length 4-| mm. ; width 2 mm. 



Hab. Natal (Frere), Transvaal (Pretoria), Southern Ehodesia 

 (? Salisbury). 



Aphodius fugitivus, n. spec. 



Head dark olivaceous, prothorax also dark olivaceous with a narrow 

 lateral luteous margin, elytra dark olivaceous with the alternate 

 intervals from the suture occasionally faintly lutescent ; clypeus 

 nearly straight in front, hardly sinuate and with the angles quite 

 rounded and the sides very oblique, genae nearly straight, anterior 

 part of clypeus not impressed, head simple, intra-ocular impressed 

 line slight, whole head smooth ; prothorax sub-parallel, hardly 

 convex, not marginate along the base which is sinuate on each side 

 of the median part, moderately closely punctulate on the sides, but 

 very little on the discoidal part ; scutellum dark olivaceous, im- 

 punctate ; elytra finely punctato-striate, with the intervals plane but 

 costulate in the posterior part, striae not reaching the apex, where 

 the marginal one is also obliterated, sixth reaching the base, 

 seventh reaching only the median part of the humeral callus, eighth 

 interrupted at about one-fourth of the length, ninth uniting with the 

 marginal one and very little longer than the eighth ; under side 

 fuscous, legs testaceous, abdomen clothed Vv^ith a long pubescence ; 

 metasternum normal, anterior tibiae strongly tri-dentate outwardly 

 and pluri-serrate above the outer teeth. 



