178 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



call the ornamentation on a butterfly's wing *' divinse artis 

 vestigia." 



In conclusion, I earnestly advise all collectors going to the 

 West Indies on an entomological expedition to go well provided 

 with store-boxes, killing-bottles, pins, setting-boards, &c., &c., as 

 such things cannot be bought in the islands, and great delay is 

 caused by having to order them from England. 



Salamanca, Santa Cruz, Teneriffe. 



NOTES ON ONTHOPHAGUS, Late.; WITH CORRECTIONS 



OF NOMENCLATURE, AND A DESCRIPTION OF A 



NEW GENUS. 



By John W. Shipp. 



Phalops, Erichs., Wiegm. Archiv. 1848, p. 103. 

 = Ephillopus, Eeitter, Verb, des Naturf, Vereines in Brun. xxxi. 



p. 168, 47. 



Type : cico7iia, Fabr., Syst. El. i. p. 51 ; = harhicornis, 

 Koll. MS. ; = corruscus, Dej., Cat. 3rd ed. p. 156 ; = iphis var., 

 Erichs., Naturf. Ins. iii. p. 764, note 4; ^ ijjhis, Oliv. 



The genus Phalops was founded by Erichson for the reception 

 of Onthophagus ciconia, Fb., in 1848. 



Eeitter in 1892 proposed the name Ephillopus for the group, 

 taking for his type iphis, 01. ; but as iphis, 01., is synonymous 

 and congeneric with ciconia, Fb., Reitter's name Ephillop)us will 

 have to fall. 



Erichson's subgenus Monapus (Wiegm. Arch. 1848) will have 

 to be rejected, as he did not give any definite characters by which 

 to identify it. 



Chalcoderiis, Er., is to be taken as the subgenus formed by 

 rudis, Sharp, maculatus, Fb. = sigiiatipennis, Dej., ater, Waterh., 

 and allied forms. 



Psilax, Erichs. (L c, p. 103), has for its type pronus, Fb. 



Gonocyphus, Lansb. (Ann. Mus. Civ. di Genova, 1885, p. 382), 

 contains the following species : {Ontli.) ohliquus, Fb., angtdatus, 

 Eedt., lenzi, Har., cesopus, Lansb., gibbicollis, Lansb., and allied 

 forms. 



I append a list of species, with their synonymy and altera- 

 tions of nomenclature : — 



Onthophagus, Lair. 



1. gorhami, Shipp, 



= gramdifer, Eeitter, V. N. Vereines, Brun. xxxi. 1892, 

 p. 83. 

 Hab. Algeria. 



2. gramdifer, Har., B. E. Z. xxx. 1886, p. 142. 

 Hab. Orange Free State (South Africa). 



