1900.] Catalogue of the Colcoptera of South Africa. 407 



are in a line with the clypeus, the latter is truncate, very slightly 

 emarginate, and with the outer angles distinct, the anterior margin is 

 very slightly reflexed, the median elevation is very slight, and the 

 intra-ocular impressed line is deep, and distinctly arcuate, the whole 

 surface is very finely and closely punctulate, and the basal part 

 is somewhat fuscous ; prothorax sub-parallel, not marginate along 

 the base, and covered with very fine but deep punctures set very 

 close to each other ; scutellum impunctate ; elytra oblong, finely 

 striate ; the striae are not geminate, but are closely punctate, 

 the eighth is very little shorter towards the base than the ninth 

 which unites with the marginal one below the humeral callus, 

 and the dorsal striae reach the apex, the intervals are plane in 

 the dorsal part, but costulate laterally, and they are very slightly 

 punctulate ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate and serrulate above the digita- 

 tion. 



Length 3i- mm. ; width 1^ mm. 



Hah. Southern Ehodesia. 



Aphodius adustus, Klug, 

 Monatsb. Berl. Acad., 1855, p. 656. 



Ferruginous, with the posterior part of the head, a very broad 

 quadrate patch on the prothorax leaving only a narrow testaceous red 

 lateral band on each side, the scutellum, a broad juxta-sutural band 

 on the testaceous red elytra, and a narrower marginal one, dark 

 fuscous or nearly black ; in some examples, such as the type, the 

 whole of the elytra is dark fuscous with only a faint piceous red 

 patch on each side towards the apex ; the upper side is glabrous, 

 and shining, but the abdomen is briefly yet densely pubescent ; 

 head deeply and somewhat closely punctured in the anterior and 

 frontal parts, the punctures being more scattered along the base, 

 the clypeus is deeply emarginate in the centre, distinctly dentate on 

 each side of the emargination, and the genae which are obtusely 

 triangular are prominent ; prothorax sub-parallel, not very obliquely 

 produced laterally towards the base which is hardly sinuate and not 

 marginate, and the whole surface is covered with somewhat closely 

 set punctures ; scutellum moderately long, impunctate, not im- 

 pressed ; elytra finely punctato-striate with the intervals plane and 

 impunctate, the marginal stria is alone connected behind with the 

 juxta-sutural one, and the fourth and fifth, eighth and ninth are 

 united at a very short distance from the apex, while towards the 

 base the sixth and seventh reach the median part of the humeral 



