APHODIAD^E. 179 



Aphodius eranarius, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 79 (1857). 

 ,Id., Cat. Can. Col. 191 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad., P to S to ) et Canarienses (ins. omnes), in 

 stercore vulgaris. 



The common European A. granarius is universal throughout the 

 inhabited islands of these Atlantic Groups. It abounds in Madeira 

 proper and Porto Santo, and has been captured in the whole seven 

 islands of the Canarian archipelago. 



Genus 158. OXYOMUS. 

 (Eschscholtz) De Casteln., Hist. ii. 98 (1840). 



512. Oxyomus Heinekeni. 



Oxyomus crenulatus, Dej., Cat. 1(33 (1837). 



Heineckeni, WolL, Ins. Mad. 228 (1854). 



Heinekeni, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 79 (1857). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.), sub putridis in inferioribus occurrens. 



Found around Funchal in Madeira proper where it resides 

 amongst various kinds of putrid refuse, or filthy rejectamenta, parti- 

 cularly in low spots towards the beach. It is a species of a wide 

 geographical range occurring even in Brazil and the West Indian 

 islands, and having been captured by the late Mr. Bewicke at Ascen- 

 sion. I have, also, inspected examples of it which were obtained by 

 the Rev. Hamlet Clark in Algeria*. 



513. Oxyomus brevicollis. 



Oxyomus brevicollis, WolL, Ins. Mad. 229 (1854). . 



, Id., Cat. Mad. Col. 79 (1857). 



, Id. t Cat. Can. Col. 191 (1864). 



Habitat Maderenses (Mad.} et Canarienses (Gom., Palma), passim. 



Rather common around Funchal in Madeira proper, occurring 

 beneath damp garden-refuse and under putrid substances near the 

 beach ; and it has been taken by the Messrs. Crotch below Hermigua 

 in Gomera, and by Mr. Gray in Palma, of the Canarian Group. 



* In a paper on certain Coleoptera from the island of Ascension, published in 

 the 'Ann. of Nat. Hist.' for 1861, I called attention to a sexual peculiarity in 

 the 0. Hi'inekfni which I had not before observed namely, that "the males 

 are not only more shining than the females, but the external edge of their front 

 tibiae is much more powerfully tridentate, whilst their four hinder ones have 

 their spurs more elongate and subflexuose, and their outer apical angle produced 

 into a much longer and acuter spine." 



