372 MR. H. W. BATES ON [JuilC 19, 



Onthophagus solivagus, Vou Heydea, Deutsch. ent. Zeits. 

 1S8G, p. 290. 



Von Heydea described the male only, from Peking. Mr. Leech's 

 two examples, females, agree very well with the description, but they 

 are smaller (8| millim., Von Heyden gives 10 milUm.) ; the head has 

 two sharply raised and slightly arcuated carinsB ; in the male the 

 occiput has a short horn. 



Onthophagus ? 



A single example ; indeterminable. 



Oniticelltjs PHANiEOiDES, Westwood, in Royle's Himalaya, 

 Entom. p. 55, t. 9. f. 3. 



The Korean differs from the Japanese form in the transverse 

 posterior ridge of the thorax, in fully-developed males, being de- 

 pressed and crossed by a groove. In this feature they approach the 

 North-Indian type-form more nearly than does the Japanese 

 variety, in which the elevation described is triangularly elevated in 

 the middle. 



Fam. ApHODiiDiE. 



Aphodius apicalis, Harold, Berl. ent. Zeits. 1861, p. 96. 



Found also, widely distributed, in Japan. 



Aphodius sordidus, Fabr. Syst. Ent. i. p. 16. 



A species distributed throughout the entire Palsearctic region from 

 Western Europe (including Britain) to Manchuria and North-eastern 

 China, and extending to Japan, according to Waterhouse, in the 

 variety A-punctutus. Korean examples do not differ from West- 

 European specimens with which I have compared them. 



Aphodius urostigma, Harold, Berl. ent. Zeits. 1862, p. 170 ; 

 id. Mittheil. MUuch. 1880, p. 156. 



Found also in Java, Ceylon, and Annam. From the last-named 

 locality M. Fleutiaux has sent me a series of specimens under the 

 name of A. pallidicornis (Walker), but they agree better with 

 A. urostigma as defined by Von Harold. The pygidium is un- 

 covered and clothed with hairs, a peculiarity not noticed by the 

 describer. 



Fam. Melolonthid.«. 



HoPLiA RUFiPES, Motschulsky, in Schrenck's Reise, p. 133, t. 9. 

 f. 4 ; Kraatz, Deutsch. ent. Zeits. 1879, p. 232. 



A large series of examples taken at Gensau, nearly all obscure 

 and uniform in the colour of the scales of the upper surface. The 

 species occurs also on the Amur, and I have examples from the coast 

 of Manchuria. 



Serica herzi, V. Heyden, Hor. Soc. Ent. B-ossicse, xxi. (1887), 

 p. 264. 



Two examples taken at Fusan. 



