362 Records of the S.A. Museum 



LABROMA HORRENS Sharp. (S) 



Menthophilus tuherculatus Waterh. (^). 



Plate vi, fig. 6. 



These names Avere founded- upon one species; apparently L. horrens has 

 precedence. 



AULACOPRIS REICHEI White. 



Plate vi, figs. 8, 9. 



This is the largest, finest, and one of the rarest dung beetles in Australia. 

 Single specimens have been taken in Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria, 

 but Mr. Edgar R. Waite obtained two specimens in the Yessabah caves on the 

 Macleay River; they had formed sixteen bat-dung balls of the size of Avalnuts, 

 each containing a larva or pupa (in one instance an egg). After being exhibited 

 at a meeting of the Linnean Society of New South Wales C) some of them were 

 reared to maturity in the Australian Museum. 



MERODONTUS CALCARATUS Macl. 



Plate vi, fig. 11. 



The small and narrow eyes of this species are shining and scarcely visibly 

 faceted, each is flat and surrounded by a slightly elevated margin, so that it 

 appears to be slightly concave. The tooth on the hind femora is twice as large 

 on some specimens as on others. 



COPTODACTYLA BAILEYI Blackb. 



I concur with Blackburn's opinion that ('. haileyi is distinct from C. 

 glahricollis. 



COPTODACTYLA DUCALIS Blackb. 



C. acuticeps Felsche. 



Plate vi, figs. 10, 11. 



Felsche considered that C. ducalis also was a synonym of C. ghibricolUs; 

 only the female was known to Blackburn, but it is abundantly distinct from 

 glahricollis ; the male was described by Felsche himself as C. acuticeps. 



(r.)SIiriri), Eev. et Mag. Zool., 1873, p. 263. 

 (6)Waterhouse, Ent. Mo. Mag., Jan., 1874, p. 176. 

 (7)Proc. Linn. Soc. N. S. Wales, 1898, p. 803. 



