M OROSai COLEOPTEBA. 



Scarabaud;©. 



Genus ONTHOPHAGUS ( Latr.). Copris (III.)- 



H>4y broadly ovate, short, depressed : last joint of labial palpi evanescent j clypeus wider 

 than long, eniarginate ; scutellum none, 



Onthophagus HECATE. ( Plate xxxl, fig. 4.) 



Small : dark brown, covered with white hairs, which give it a hoary appearance. Shield 

 rather jwinted and turned up ; thorax terminated in a prominent plate, turned up at 

 the angles ; legs ciliated. 



Onthophagus ovatus- 

 Rather small, ovoid, brown, smooth above ; hairs sparse upon the legs and beneath. Shield 

 toarked with two parallel sharp transverse ridges. 



Genus PHANiEUS ( Mc). 

 Basal ailiculation of the labial palpi larger than the others, and dilated at its internal 

 edge : scutellum none, but its place is occupied by a small triangular extension ol 

 the thorax. Males furnished with tubercles or horns upon the clypeus, and prominence* 

 upon the thorax. 



Phanjeus cAKNiFEX. ( Plate xii, JSg. 5.) 



Rather short, wide : elytra shorter than the head and thorax ; shield with a single or 

 double prominence behind ; thorax rich purple green, and strongly sculptured ; elytra 

 rich purple-green, punctated and ridged j beneath green ; upper surface of the legs 

 purple.. 

 The males are smaller than the females, and the clypeus is armed with a long and strong 

 horn pointing backwards ; in females, it is merely a tubercle, or may be two close together. 

 The thorax of the male presents a broad, flat, nearly semilunar punctate disk. Length 

 seven-tenths of an inch. 

 Occurs rarely in the vicinity of Albany : common in Maryland. 



Genus APHODIUS ( III.). Copris (01.) ; Scarab^us ( Linn.). 



Terminal articulation of the palpi cylindrical ; mandibles destitute of a corneous tooth or 

 lobe ; form of the body gibbous. 

 All the species of the genus Apiiodius live in the excrements of animals, where they 

 occur often in great numbers.. They are small insects, about one-fourth of an inch in lengthy 



