920 FAMILY' T.. — SCAHAB.EID.'?':. 



vertical carina divided at middle, thus forming two short tubercles. Tho- 

 rax minutely roughened, sparsely granulate-punctate. Elytra finely stri- 

 ate; intervals each with two rows of punctures, each puncture bearing a 

 short hair. Length 3.5-5 mm. 



Lake and Vigo counties; frequent locally. April 29-June 10. 

 Oceiu's beneath bones and skin of carrion and in fungi. 



1737 (5464). Onthophagus cribricollis Horn, Trans. Kans. Acad. Sci., 



VII, 1881, 76. 



Rounded oval. Dark ])urplish, bronzed, feebly shining; sparsely pubes- 

 cent with short erect hairs. Head with two feeble transverse carinjB, the 

 shorter one on the frontal suture, the other between the eyes. Clypeus 

 coarsely puu>'lured, its front broadly and i-ather deeply emar^inate. with a 

 triangular tooth each side of notch. Thorax broadest at middle, sides 

 (fblique on basal half: surface coarsely, deeply and rather sparsely punc- 

 tate. Elytra finely striate ; intervals each with two irregular rows of rather 

 dense junictures. Front tibiae with four teeth, the second from apex the 

 longest. Length 3.5 mm. 



Lawrence County; rare. June 6. Taken from beneath horse 

 manure in wagon road, two miles east of Mitchell. Described from 

 Douglas County, Kansas and Texas, and not since recorded else- 

 where. Resembles a small form of jauns, but the clypeus is dis- 

 tinctly two-t(wthed and the thorax is wdtlunit sign of protuberance. 



1738 (5463). Onthophagus pennsyi.vanicus Harold, loc. cit.. 115. 



Form of tuhcrcalifrons. Black, feebly shining, sparsely pubescent. Cly- 

 peus entire or feel)]y truncate at middle, rather densely and coarsely punc- 

 tured in female. Thorax rather finely, not densely i)un('tate. Elytra finely 

 striate, intervals each with two rows of punctures. Length 3.5-5 mm. 



Throughout the State; common. March (i-September 28. Oc- 

 cui's in cari'i(ui. dung and fungi. All the species of this genus ])ur- 

 row under the nuiterial in whicli they feed in the same way as 

 Copris. 



Tribe IT. APHODIINI. 



!~>mall, ol)U)ng, sul)cylindrical ])eetles. which live chiefly in dung. 

 They have the clypeus expanded so as to cover the mouth parts 

 fcxcept in .Eijialui) ; middle coxa' obli(|ue and contiguous, so that 

 the legs arc close together: elytra entire, always stnate and covm^-- 

 ing the abdomen; ventral segments six, all free; tarsi with distinct 

 claws, with a small ])rocess heai'iti<4- two set;e between them. The 

 tribe is divided into nine genera, ot" which representatives of five 



