426 Transactions South African P]iilosoi:)liical Society, [vol. xii. 



the male wide, flat, strongly incurved inwardly, sub-cylindrical and 

 straight in the female. 



Length 10-lOi- mm. ; width 5 J mm. 



Hah. Cape Colony (Knysna, Somerset East), Natal (Durban). 

 It occurs also in the East Indies, teste Harold. 



In the examples with light brown elytra, the punctuation on the 

 prothorax is a little more scattered in the centre of the disk. 



Gen. COPTOCHIEUS, Har., 

 Berl. Entom. Zeitschr., 1859, p. 202. 



Mentum of Aphodius but ligula not projecting beyond the mentum^ 

 which is densely hairy and sparingly setulose at tip, joints of labial 

 palpi a little thicker than in Aphodius, the last one elongato-ovate ; 

 last joint of maxillary palpi deeply scooped inwardly from base to 

 apex ; clypeus deeply incised and with the angles of the incision 

 sometimes recurved and sub-tuberculate, head simple ; prothorax 

 moderately convex, ampliated laterally, and a little attenuate towards 

 the base which is sinuate on each side; scutellum long, sharply 

 triangular ; elytra oblong, punctato-striate, and with ten striae on 

 each side as in Aphodius ; the under side is as in this genus, except 

 that the last abdominal segment is broader than the two penulti- 

 mate ones ; anterior tibiae of the male bi-dentate outwardly, but 

 occasionally having a third very small tooth, the apical tooth blunt 

 and forming the outer angle of the truncate apical part, inner part 

 obliquely truncate as far as the second outer tooth, slightly angular 

 there, and sometimes sinuate above the angle ; intermediate and 

 posterior tibiae as in Aphodius, apical spurs unequal and very long, 

 basal joint of posterior tarsi very long and sometimes dilated ; in the 

 female the anterior tibiae are normally tri- dentate, and the basal joint 

 of the intermediate and posterior ones is simple and shorter than 

 the apical spurs. 



The habits are those of Aphodius, and the genus has, so far as 

 I know, been met with in Asia Minor only. Some of the species 

 appear in great abundance at the beginning of the spring, but only 

 for a very short period. 



Key to the Species. 



A-. Basal joint of posterior tarsi, compressed, and greatly dilated 

 in the male. 



Prothorax deeply pmictate basal oint of hind tarsi spatuli- 



form in the male ptcropiis. 



