1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 41S 



the carinae on the elytra are not quite so sharp, especially on the 

 sides, but all reach the apex, except the ninth, the punctures, which 

 fill the geminate striae, are not so distinctly divided into two, the 

 anterior tibiae are crenulate above the digits, and there is a mode- 

 rately distinct, although very slight, arcuate impressed line between 

 the eyes. 



Length 4-4-|- mm. ; width 2|- mm. 



Hah. Transvaal (Potchefstroom). 



Aphodius (? OxYOMUs) JUGALis, n. spec. 



Eeddish brown, a little darker on the discoidal part of the pro- 

 thorax, glabrous ; clypeus much attenuated laterally from the genae 

 which are a little ampliate but oblique, to the apex which is also 

 rounded and is much narrower in proportion than any of the other 

 South African species of Aphodius ; the head is somewhat punc- 

 tulate, and there is a slight elevation in the centre of the head, and a 

 transverse, very slightly impressed line between the eyes ; prothorax 

 slightly narrower at apex than at base, not marginate along the base, 

 nearly impunctate in the median part, and having some deep, some- 

 what scattered punctures on the sides ; scutellum faintly punctulate ; 

 elytra oblong, intervals impunctate, tectiform, sharply carinate from 

 the base to two-thirds of the length only, striae deep, apparently not 

 geminate, but deeply and closely punctate ; eighth and ninth striae 

 of equal length and obliterated towards the base at about one-fifth of 

 the length ; all the dorsal striae reach the apex, and none are united 

 behind ; anterior tibiae serrulate above the digitation. 



Length 4 mm. ; width IJ mm. 



Hah. Natal (Durban). 



This species is a very good transition form between the Aphodius 

 wdth costate elytra and Oxyomus. It will be easily recognised by 

 the anterior margin of the clypeus. 



Aphodius (Oxyomus) pubekulus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffrar., ii., p. 360. 



Ferruginous red, seldom brick red, sub-opaque, very briefly pubes- 

 cent ; clypeus slightly emarginate in front, broadly rounded laterally, 

 genae ampliate, broadly rounded, basal angle in a line with the eye, 

 clypeus very slightly and narrowly impressed transversely with the 

 margin moderately reflexed, in the central part there is a slight, not 

 tuberculate elevation, and a transverse, arcuate, impressed frontal 



