1900.] Catalogue of the Coleo])tera of South Africa. 437 



acuminate at tip, penultimate joint deeply excavate outwardly ; 

 clypeus slightly sinuate at tip, gen^ projecting at right angles above 

 the eye and for a long distance ; head and prothorax simple, the 

 latter depressed with the sides slightly recurved ; scutellum narrow, 

 moderately long, very sharp at tip ; elytra depressed, and having on 

 each side seven strise, outer margin depressed ; epipleura broad and 

 of nearly equal width for the greatest part of the length ; median 

 part of metasternum plane, distinctly grooved in the centre, femora 

 not very robust ; tibiae slender, anterior ones moderately thickened 

 towards the tip, straight across at apex and having a moderately 

 long apical spur in the inner angle, and the tarsi inserted therefore 

 in the apical transverse part, the three outer teeth are moderately 

 strong, the last one being in a line with the truncate part, 

 and there is no serration above them ; intermediate and posterior 

 tibiae feebly grooved on the upper side and with two transverse 

 teeth. 



This name is proposed for Aphodius deplanatus, Eoth, which 

 differs from Aphodius in the shape of the anterior tibiae, the excava- 

 tion of the second joint of the maxillary palpi which are very long, 

 the seven striated elytra, the broad, somewhat sub-horizontal 

 epipleura which are of the same width for the greatest part of the 

 length, and the depressed facies which is not unlike that of some 

 Lordites. 



LORDITOM^US DEPLANATUS, Eoth, 



Wiegm. Arch., i. 1851, p. 131. 



A. ojpatroides, Klug, Monatsb. Berl. Ac, 1855, p. 656 ; Peters' Eeis., 

 1862, p. 246, pi. xiv., fig. 12. 



Fuscous brown, opaque, with the sides of the prothorax narrowly 

 flavous, legs also pale flavous ; body depressed, pubescent ; head 

 deeply and broadly punctured along the base, clypeal part impunctate, 

 the genae are sub-triangular, the base projecting much at right angles 

 above the eyes, the clypeus is very obliquely attenuate from, but not 

 quite in a line with, the apex of the genae, and it is slightly sinuate in 

 the anterior part ; prothorax depressed, especially the sides the outer 

 margin of which is oblique, distinctly broader across the basal part 

 than at apex and reflexed, it is deeply and closely punctured, the 

 punctures are setigerous, the outer sides alone are marginate, the base 

 is deeply sinuate on each side of the median part and setulose; scu- 

 tellum long, sharp, impunctate except along the base ; elytra oblong, 

 depressed, but with the suture raised, narrowly striate but with the 

 striae geminate and distinctly punctate, intervals plane, apparently 



