FAMILY SCARABjEID^. 69 



ol" a cylimlrical rorm : some of the species are spotted, or variously colored. iJuring the 

 days of autumn they take wing in great numbers, flying sluggishly through the air. In 

 Europe, Letkrus cep'ialotus is said to devour the tender shoots of plants, particularly of 

 vines ; but this seems to be an exception to the habits common to the family. 



Al'llODlUS UICOLOR (S.). 



Quite small, hrown or Idack-brown ; legs and beneath light fuscous : head and thorax 

 filftly punctured ; edges of the elytral ridges finely notched ; dypeus widely emargi- 

 nate. Length one-fifth of an incli. 



Apiiodius stkigatus. 

 Small : head and thorax v<-ry finely punctured, black, smaller than the preceding, obtuse 

 at both extremities ; clypeus convex ; feet dark piceous ; posterior angles of the thorax 

 rounded. 



ApUODItS TERMINALIS ( S.). 



Small, brown or blackish brown, shining : forelegs hairy ; tips of the elytra and feet 

 ru(i>us ; clypeus tritulicrculate and emarginate before ; tlmrax marked with subetjual 

 punctures; elytra marked with punctured striic. 



Aphodus copkonimus (M.)- 

 Quite small, light brown, sliiiiiiig : thnnix rather mottled with darker brown, very finely 

 punctured. 



APHOUirs KK.MORAI.IS (S.). 



Blackish brown : edges ()ftlie lliorax dilated and light lirown ; elytra fuscous and lighter 

 in fmiit ; thighs light and translucent. Scarcely one-fifth of an inch in length. 



ApHOUUS ATERKIMLS ( M.). 



Small : tliorax lilack ; elytra dark brown ; brown beneath. 



ApHODIVS SKRVAl,. 



Brown : head finely imnctunii ; thorax dark brown ; elytra light brown and spotted, 

 three in front, banded in the middle. 



Gf.nus COPRIS (Gkoif.). Scarab.kis (Linn.). 



BiKJy ovate, thick and ccmvex ; knob of the antenna* terminating in thrt cleaves; four 

 hindlegs dilated ami truncated ; scutellnm none ; articulations of the labial palpi 

 thrcp : the first joint is < yliinlrical. and not dilated at the internal side 



