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apex, but it is not the same width, and in 'the median part, where it 

 is narrowest, it reaches from the seventh stria to the outer margin. 

 Legs brown, with yellowish femora." 

 Hah. Mozambique. 



Aphodius aedens, Har., 

 Berl. Entom. Zeitschr., 1866, p. 103. 



"■ Sub-elongate, convex, shining, piceous red, elytra brick-red with 

 the margin and the apex infuscate ; head obsoletely punctate, frontal 

 part with three raised, transverse carinules and a tubercle situated a 

 little before the median part, genge moderately prominent ; prothorax 

 not equally but moderately densely punctate, the larger punctures 

 mixed with smaller ones ; elytra crenato-striate, intervals hardly 

 convex, sparingly but very finely punctulate ; palpi and antennae 

 ferruginous ; body and legs obscure rusty red. 



Length 2f-3 lin. 



Hah. Cape of Good Hope." ■ 



Aphodius binodulosus, Har., 

 Berl. Entom. Zeitschr., 1866, p. 116. 



" Slightly convex, sub-elongate, shining, piceous red ; elytra chest- 

 nut-brown and having a median sub-fuscous longitudinal patch ; head 

 punctulate, nearly smooth in front, frontal part tri-tuberculate, 

 median tubercle bi-partite, anterior fold raised, arcuate, clypeus 

 slightly emarginate in front, gense little prominent ; prothorax 

 densely and equally punctate ; elytra crenato-striate, with the 

 intervals slightly convex and smooth ; palpi and antennse ferru- 

 ginous ; under side dark rusty red, legs testaceous, anterior ones 

 and also the tarsi rufescent. 



Length 3^-3f lin. 



Hah. Cape of Good Hope." 



Aphodius capensis, Har., 

 Berl. Entom. Zeitschr., 1866, p. 110. 



''Very like A. UbIus, Wied., and perhaps only a varietal form; 

 elongate, convex, shining, obscurely rufous with the elytra brick-red ; 

 head not deeply punctate, but more densely punctate on the anterior 

 part, gense little prominent, frontal part tri-tuberculate, the anterior 



