256 Mr. T. Vernon Wollaston on 
Fam. APHODIADAL. 
p. 179 (genus Oxyomts). 
The two species which, in my ‘ Coleoptera Atlantidum ’ 
and previous publications, I regarded as Oxyomi have 
been formed (along with many others), by the Baron 
Harold (Col. Heft. 11. 100-1867), into a distinct group— 
under the title of Atenius ; and consequently, since the 
O. Heinekent has moreover heen identified by him with 
the Scarabeus stercorator of Fabricius, they must for the 
future be cited as follows :— 
Atenius stercorator. 
Scarabeeus stercorator, Fab., Spec. Ins. 1. 22 (1781) ; 
Oliv., Ent. 1. 3-89, t. 17, f. 155 (1789). Oxyomus Heinec- 
keni, Woll., Ins. Mad. 228 (1854). Oxyomus Heinekent, 
Id., Cat. Mad. ‘Col... 79 (1857) 3 “Ud. (Col Ati no 
(1865). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.); sub putridis in inferioribus 
occurrens. 
Atenius brevicollis. 
Oxyomus brevicollis, Woll., Ins. Mad. 229 (1854) ; Id., 
Cat. Mads Col: 79 (1857); Ids, Cat: CanseCols Toe 
(1864) ; Id., Col. Atl. 179 (1865). 
Hab.—Maderenses (Mad.), et Canarienses (Gom., 
Palma) ; passim. 
Fam. MELOLONTHIDA. 
It will be sufficient to state here that Blanchard, in his 
‘Cat. de la Coll. Ent. du Mus. d’ Hist. Nat. de Paris,’ 
published in 1850, has described a member of the genus 
Hoplia (under the name of H. Peronii) which is said to 
have been brought [doubtless by M. Péron] from Tene- 
riffe. I can do no more than allude to this fact, for I 
have had so many instances forced upon my notice of 
the almost incredible want of accuracy displayed by many 
French entomologists as regards their professed habitats 
that it is next to impossible not to suspect that perhaps 
