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City, Concord, Peru, Lincoln, Omaha, Scribner, Fairmont, 

 West Point, Rock Co., Imperial, Mitchell, and Sioux Co., col- 

 lected from April to August 17. Laevis is a common, widely 

 distributed and variable species. The Nebraska specimens 

 are largely of the usual bronzed-black type, but in an occas- 

 ional individual the bronzed luster is nearly or quite wanting. 

 Among the specimens at hand the length varies from 12 to 

 18 mm. 



Canthon chalcites Haldeman. 



1843. Cayithon chalcites Haldeman, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., i, 

 p. 404. 



Specimens examined : 2 5,39, collected at Omaha, 

 Maskell and Rulo, during May, June and July. 



Canthon viridis Beauvois. 



1805. Copris viridis Beuvois, Ins. Afr. et Amer., p. 23 pi. 3, fig. 2. 



Specimens examined : 1 $ ,f rom South Bend. This 

 species is recorded from Indiana, the southern and western 

 states, and Central America. It is probably rare in Ne- 

 braska. 



Choeridium Serville 



From the North American fauna only two species are 

 known in this genus, one of more southernly and one of more 

 northernly distribution. The latter is here recorded from 

 Nebraska. 



1825. Serville: Entomological part of Encyclopedie methodique, 



X, p. 356. 

 1885. Blanchard: "On the Species of Canthon and Phanaeus of 



the United States with Notes on other Genera," Trans. Amer. 



Ent. Soc, xii, pp. 163-172. (Descriptions of the two species.) 



Choeridium histeroides Weber. 



1801. Copris histeroides Weber, Obs. Ent., p. 37. 

 1910. Choeridium histeroides Blatchley, Coleoptera of Indiana, p. 

 915, fig. 361. 



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