1900.] Catalogue of the Coleoptera of South Africa. 421 



above the basal tooth there is a faint indication of two serrate teeth 

 which are, however, somewhat indistinct in many examples. 



In this species the clypeus is very little attenuate laterally, and 

 broader in front in proportion to its length than in any other South 

 African species, and in shape somew^hat resembles that of Coi)to- 

 chirus, but it is not emarginate at the tip. 



Length 4J-5 mm. ; width 2-2|- mm. 



Hah. Natal (Frere, Estcourt), Southern Ehodesia (Salisbury). 



Aphodobius villosulus, n. spec. 



Straw-colour, or pale flavous, upper part, especially the elytra, 

 briefly but distinctly pubescent ; head diagonal laterally from the 

 base of the gense which projects at right angle beyond the eye, 

 to the rounded outer, apical part of the clypeus which is quite 

 straight, not emarginate, not impressed at middle, and the margin of 

 which is very slightly reflexed, the whole clypeus is very slightly 

 punctate, there is a frontal, transverse impressed line, and the 

 posterior part of the head is feebly, yet more distinctly, punctulate 

 than the clypeus ; prothorax a little obliquely attenuate laterally in 

 the anterior and also in the posterior part, but otherwise straight, 

 not marginate along the base, very closely punctate except for 

 a small, median discoidal area ; scutellum short, sharp, feebly 

 punctate ; elytra oblong, deeply but finely striate, but with the 

 striae slightly obliterated or shallower in the posterior part, with the 

 eighth and ninth having nearly the same length, and obliterated 

 towards the base only at about one-fifth of the length, intervals 

 costulate, and having a double row of setigerous, distinct punc- 

 tures ; anterior tibiae tri-dentate, the two basal teeth straight. 



Length 4 mm. ; width 1-|- mm. 



Hah. Southern Rhodesia (Salisbury). 



This species is smaller than A. misellus, but the general facies is 

 the same ; it is distinguished by the presence of a supra-clypeal 

 impressed line, and the less tectiform and closely punctate and 

 pubescent costae on the elytra. 



Gen. HARMOGASTER, Har., 



Berl. Ent. Zeit., 1861, p. 112. 



Mentum nearly quadrate, but a little attenuate obliquely towards 

 the apex, broadly and very deeply emarginate at tip, and strongly 



