50 Journal New York Entomological Society, t'^'o'- xxiii. 



Canthon nigricornis var. punctaticoUis new variety. 



Form, size and characters of nigricornis. Init prothorax and head finely 

 scabrous and with numerous punctures. 



Florida. 



The prothorax in nigricornis is granulate, the granules elongate, 

 of which there is no indication in punctaticoUis. 



Canthon puncticollis Lee 



Canthon nycfelins Bates, Biol. Cent. Am., Col., Vol. II. pt. 2, p. 31. 



C. nvctcliits described by Bates from Mexico was compared bv him 

 with C. puncticollis Lee, from which he distinguished it "by the re- 

 markable depression at the base of the thorax and elytra, and the 

 corresponding elevation of the second and third elytral interstices at 

 their base." Though Dr. Leconte does not mention these characters 

 in the- description of C. puncticollis the type and all other Lower Cali- 

 fornia specimens, which I have seen, have this thoracic and elytral 

 depression very well pronounced. Arizona specimens and those 

 which I have taken in Hidalgo and Brownsville, Texas, differ con- 

 stantly from typical puncticollis in the absence of this thoracic de- 

 pression and are therefore entitled to a separate name. 



Canthon puncticollis var. integricollis new variety. 



Differs from typical puncticollis in the absence of the distinct, sub- 

 triangular basal depression at middle of the prothorax. The scutellar de- 

 pression is variable, well pronounced in some specimens in others less and the 

 tumid elevation of the second and third elytral interval at base may be more 

 or less distinct or entirely absent. The size is generally smaller and the 

 elytral and thoracic sculpture finer. Length 5 mm. 



Hidalgo (type) and Brownsville, Texas; Sta. Rita Mts., Arizona. 



Aphodius haemorrhoidalis Linn. 



Several specimens, which I identify without hesitation as this 

 European species, were taken by Mr. Fred. Wintersteiner at Secaucus 

 and Hackensack meadows in New Jersey. 



This species is a little shorter and stouter than granarius, black 

 with apex of elytra reddish brown (typical form) ; sometimes the 

 humeral unborne also reddish (var. hunicralis) ; the prothorax is 

 coarsely punctate with some finer punctures intermixed. The scutel- 

 lum is long, not longitudinally impressed and densely punctured except 

 at apex ; the elytral striae are more deeply impressed and wider than 



