420 Transactions South African PJiilosojohical Society, [vol. xii. 



APHODOBIUS, n. gen. 



Mentum of Apliodius, but more ampliated laterally and fringed 

 with very few stiff ciliae, labial palpi cylindrical but thicker than in 

 Apliodius, and with the second one half the length of the apical one ; 

 maxillary palpi as in Apliodius ; clypeus straight at tip, obtusely 

 rounded at the angles, and not very diagonal laterally ; head, 

 prothorax, and elytra as in Apliodius, anterior tibiae not strongly 

 dentate outwardly in the male, but very slightly obliquely truncate 

 at tip, and with the inner spur short, nearly apical and strongly 

 curved inwardly ; female with normal tibiae. 



I propose this genus for Apliodius misellus, Bohem., in which 

 the spur of the anterior tibiae is bent inwardly instead of outwardly, 

 as in Apliodius. 



Key to the Species. 



Upper side glabrous ; intervals of elytra tectiform and impunctate misellus. 

 Upper side pubescent ; intervals of elytra costate and punctate .. villosulus. 



Aphodobius misellus, Bohem., 

 Insect. Caffr., ii., p. 356. 



Pale flavous, nearly straw-colour, glabrous, shining, head and 

 prothorax a little infuscate in the centre ; head closely punctulate, 

 genae triangular, the apex of the triangle projecting much, and a 

 little sharper in the male than in the female, the clypeus is obliquely 

 attenuate from the genae, rounded anteriorly, and very little 

 sinuate at apex, it has in the centre a very faint elevation, a very 

 slight transverse line, which in the male ends in a somewhat indis- 

 tinct tubercle, and it is finely but distinctly and closely punctate : 

 prothorax little convex, little parallel laterally, marginate only along 

 the outer sides, distinctly punctate, the punctures denser laterally 

 than in the median part, and moderately closely set, base very little 

 sinuate on each side of the median part ; elj^tra oblong, convex, 

 deeply striate, punctures of the striie small and moderately' deep, 

 intervals convex, smooth, seventh stria reaching the base, eighth 

 stria interrupted for about one-fifth of the length, ninth sinuate 

 towards the base, but reaching it under the humeral callus ; under 

 side glabrous, metasternum very deeply impressed in the centre ; 

 anterior tibiae slender, tri-dentate outwardly, and with the apical 

 spur short and turned downwards in the male, the apical outer 

 tooth is slender and not strongly slanting in the same sex, and 



