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not previously been reported from Florida. E. punctulatiis Lee. has also been 

 taken at light at Duncdin. 



Copris inemarginatus Blatch. — An examination of the male genitalia 

 of this species and of C. anaglypticus was kindly made for me by Prof. R. W. 

 Dawson of Lincoln, Neb. He reports that the claspers are uniformly less elongate 

 and less slender in inemarginatus than in C. anaglypticus. He examined also 

 the genitalia of other species of Copris, viz., niKchus minntus and three tropical 

 forms, and states that "the differences between the genitalia of these unquestion- 

 ably distinct species are little if any greater than those between inemarginatus 

 and anaglypticus y His conclusions therefore are but additional evidence that 

 the Florida form was worthy of a distinctive name*. 



Onthophagus alutaceus sp. nov. — Rounded-oval, small for the genus. 

 Black, feebly shining, not at all bronzed; palpi, tarsi and front tibiae brownish. 

 Head of male without carina, sparsely punctate above, more closely near the 

 margins, the clypeus with a broad, rather shallow triangular notch. Thorax 

 twice as wide as long, longest at middle; sides straight in front, then rounded into 

 base, the latter broadly rounded, sinuate near hind angles, distinctly margined; 

 disk strongly convex, its front third declivent and with an obtuse triangular 

 median projection; surface finely alutaceous, sparsely, evenly, coarsely and 

 shallowly punctate, each puncture bearing a short, coarse, stiff, erect, brown 

 hair. Elytra at base distinctly narrower than middle of thorax; striae very 

 fine; intervals wide, coarsely alutaceous, each with two rows of fine, acic- 

 ulate punctures, each puncture bearing a line, short, inclined yellow hair. 

 Spur of hind tibiae half the length of tarsi. Pygidium, femora and sterna 

 coarsely, shallowly and sparsely punctate; abdomen almost smooth. Length 

 4 mm. 



One male, taken on the wing at Dunedin, Jan. 7. Chas. Schaeffer, who 

 recently published a review of the North American species of Onthophagus** says 

 it is undescribed form, close to a new species in his collection from Texas, which 

 has the front tibiae armed with a distinct, moderately long hairy pencil as in 

 "anthracinusjandolti, etc.,'' this being absent in the Florida specimen. The broad, 

 strongly alutaceous elytral intervals with rows of aciculate punctures resembling 

 minute tubercles, taken in connection with the small size, black colour and notched 

 clypeus, are the principal distinctive characters of alutaceus. It is closely 

 related to crihricollis Horn, the latter being bronzed, with different sculpture 

 of upper surface and broader clypeal notch. 



Aphodius bicolor Say. — One specimen taken at Dunedin, March 18. 

 The first record for the State. 



Polyphylla occidentalis Linn. — One specimen taken at porch-light at 

 Dunedin, June 10. Specimens in the Gainesville collection are from Lake City. 

 The P. occidentalis of the Schwarz List was based on P. gracilis, there being no 

 published record of true occidentalis from the State. 



*In the last paragraph of the notes following the description of C. inemarginatus (Can. Ent., 

 February, 1918), line 8 from the bottom of p. 55 should read "and take the punctures out of" in- 

 stead of "and put the punctures in." 



**Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, XXII, 1914, 290. 



