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Aphodius ovalis, Waterhotse. 
Aphodius ovalis, Waterh. /. c. p. 89. 
Hab. This species#appears to be local. The original 
example came from Nagasaki, and on the 16th February, 
1881, I obtained four more specimens at Ipongi, a place 
about four miles from the town. 
Aphodius variabilis, Waterhouse. 
Aphodius variabilis, Waterh. J. c. p. 90. 
Melinopterus nigrotessellatus, Motsch. Bull. Mose. p. 170 (1866). 
I consider that the above names apply to the same species. 
Motschulsky’s description is not sufficient to allow his name 
precedence ; the form of this insect is “ elongato-subovatus ”’ 
(the same as Chilothorax vitta) and the measurement 2 lines 
by 1 line. The punctuation of the thorax varies in density in 
A, variabilis, and the scutellum is black, piceous, or red 
in various examples. I haye three specimens from Yokohama 
in which the dorsal spots unite and form a broad transverse 
band, which, however, leaves the sutural interstice obscurely 
brown. 
Hab. Nagasaki, Kobé, and Yokohama. Common where 
it occurs. 
Aphodius urostigma, Harold. 
Aphodius urostigma, Har. Berl. ent. Zeit. p. 170 (1862); Waterh. 7. c. 
p- 90. 
Harold in 1878 (Munich Cat. p. 1055) considered this 
species to be the same as A. pallidicornis, Walker; but 
Waterhouse, having access to Walker’s type in 1875, pointed 
out the differences. 
Hab. Nagasaki, Oyayama, Nikko, and Awomorl. Water- 
house gives China and Ceylon as localities, and Harold’s 
typical specimen came from Java. 
CALIUS, gen. nov. 
The species for which this genus is established has a cor- 
poral outline like Sapros:tes, long and parallel at the sides, and 
it inhabits the recesses of old trees. From the colour and the 
difficulty I had in obtaining a few specimens, it probably 
rarely comes near the surface. Head anteriorly semicircular 
in outline, frontal suture well marked, mentum rather narrow, 
arched not incised in front, terminal leaflet of the antennal 
club much less transverse than in Saprosztes ; the anterior 
and posterior coxe contiguous, intermediate moderately 
