1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 411 



with deep, irregularly scattered, numerous punctures ; scutellum 

 somewhat short, sub-carinate longitudinally in the middle ; elytra, 

 convex, very deeply geminato-striate, striae filled with deep, slightly 

 transverse punctures, intervals carinate and edged on each side by 

 one of the lines of the geminate striae, only the first, second, 

 third, sixth and ninth reach the apex, the sixth and seventh striae 

 nearly reach the base, the eighth is normally obliterated at the 

 customary distance from it, and the ninth unites with the marginal 

 one, close to the base ; abdomen briefly but densely pubescent ; 

 anterior tibiae strongly tri-dentate and pluri- serrate above the digi- 

 tation. 



Length 5-6 mm. ; width 3 mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Cape Town, Stellenbosch, Paarl, Malmes- 

 bury, Worcester, Knysna). 



Aphodius (Ammoecius) caeinulatus, n. spec. 



Black, shining, glabrous ; antennae and palpi piceous red, legs 

 piceous ; clypeus deeply emarginate in front, very oblique laterally,, 

 and in a line with the apex of the genae which are projecting and 

 obtusely triangular ; head punctulate and having a very distinct 

 sharp, transverse clypeal carina, and a moderately raised intra-ocular 

 one ; prothorax convex, a little ampliate laterally, not very obliquely 

 produced behind towards the base which is distinctly marginate, 

 covered with deep, scattered punctures which are less numerous in 

 the anterior part of the disk ; scutellum short, distinctly carinate 

 longitudinally in the middle ; elytra narrowly striate, striae mode- 

 rately deeply punctate, and with the intervals broad and tri-carinate ; 

 the median carina is not very much higher in the dorsal part than 

 the other two, which are really the raised geminate line of the stria, 

 and is nearly as slender, but in the lateral part it is thicker and 

 much higher, only the fifth and seventh striae reach the apex, the 

 dorsal striae reach the base, the sixth and seventh reach only the 

 humeral callus, the eighth is very much abbreviated, and the ninth 

 unites with the marginal one near the base under the humeral fold 

 which is not very pronounced ; abdominal segments briefly but 

 densely pubescent ; anterior tibiae strongly tri-dentate and distinctly 

 pluri-serrate above the digits. 



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



Hah. Transvaal (? Johannesburg). 



This species is easily distinguished by the tri-carinate intervals of 

 the dorsal intervals on the elytra. The male is unknown. 



