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studied. The species appears to be generally distributed in Jamaica 

 to judge from the collections available. On the other hand, the species 

 is not yet known from the Dominican Republic. All specimens from 

 Hispaniola seen by the author have been taken in Haiti. Dr. R. E, 

 Blackwelder secured series from Morne La Selle, Kenscoff, Trouin, 

 and St. Marc. Three specimens from the Wickham collection are from 

 Port-au-Prince. The distribution of the species suggests that its pres- 

 ence in the West Indian islands is the result of a comparatively recent 

 importation. 



3. APHODIUS LIVIDUS (Oliyier) 



Scarabaeus lividus Olivieb, 1789, Entomologie . . . , Coleopteres, vol. 1, No. 3, p. 



86, pi. 26, fig. 222. 

 Aphodius lividus Cbeutzer, 1799, Entomologische Versuche, p. 44, pi. 1, fig. 7a. 

 Aphodius (Laharrus) lividus Mulsant, 1870, Aun. Soc. Agr. Lyon, ser. 4, vol. 2, 



p. 516. 

 Aphodius (Nialus) lividus Reitter, 1892, Verb. Naturf. Ver. Brtinn., vol. 30, p. 



202. — Schmidt, 1922, Das Tierreich, pars 45, Aphodiinae, p. .316 (see this 



paper for more extended bibliography, including synonymy). 

 Aphodius luridus Arrow, 1903, Trans. Ent. Soc. London, p. 511 {lapsus calami). 



Subconvex, pale yellow-brown, with anterior margin of frons, ver- 

 tex, disk of pronotum, disks and suture of the elytra, and articulations 

 of legs dark. Head with a low median tubercle on the clypeofrontal 

 suture, clypeus obtusely angulate on each side of the slightly depressed 

 median area, margin finely beaded, gena not produced laterally beyond 

 eye, surface sparsely set with a mixture of large and small punctures. 

 Pronotum with sides gently rounded and narrowly margined, base 

 without marginal line, anterior angles acute but not prolonged, sur- 

 face with punctation similar to that of head, no ground sculpture 

 visible. Scutellum elongate triangular, with very few punctures. 

 Elytra with striae finely incised, strial punctures fine, intervals flat 

 and extremely finely punctured, the punctures becoming a little 

 coarser on apical declivity. Pygidium rather densely punctured, set 

 with short hairs with a few longer ones intermingled. Hind tibia 

 fringed at apex with equal spinules, first segment of hind tarsus not 

 so long as the next three combined. Length : 3.5-4.5 mm. 



Type. — Location unknown to writer. 



Type locality. — Environs of Paris, France. 



Material examined. — In addition to many hundred specimens from 

 other parts of the world, 380 West Indian specimens of Aphodius 

 lividus have- been examined by the writer in the course of this study. 

 As the species is already known to have a nearly world-wide distribu- 

 tion, it is sufficient merely to indicate the islands from which specimens 

 have been seen : Cuba, Jamaica, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, Vieques, St. 

 Thomas, St. John, St. Croix, St. Kitts, Antigua, Montserrat, Guade- 

 loupe, Dominica, and Grenada. 



