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page I have given as the type of the genus Ana- 

 chalcos. 



Sp. 24. Schoefferi. — The reader is referred to 

 Monsieur Gory's excellent Monograph on Sisyphus, 

 where all the species are admirably figured. 



Sp. 9,5. HelwigiL — I think there can be little 

 doubt that this insect may be considered as a Gym- 

 nopleurus. The name is omitted by Mr. MacLeay 

 in his Synoptical Table of the Species of Scarabseidse, 

 probably he considered it as a variety only of one of 

 those described in the Synonymia Insectorum of 

 Schonherr where it is recorded as an Ateuchus. 



Sp. 30. Squalidus. — There must be some mistake 

 respecting this insect, as none of the Scarabsei of 

 the Old World have yet been discovered in the 

 New. I am unacquainted with the insect, and 

 range it with Coprobius for the present. The genus 

 Megathopa of Eschscholtz represents in America 

 the Scarabaeus of the Old Continent, and is the 

 nearest approximation to it in form. In my cabinet 

 I ^have three species, and three other additional 

 nondescripts I find noted in my journal as occurring 

 in the German and French collections. 



Sp. 37. Bipustulatus . — It is possible that this 

 insect may belong to the genus Onthophagus ; but, 

 as the specimen in the Banksian cabinet is not in a 



