70 R. W. Daivson 



Specimens examnied : 1 $ , Nebraska City, April 29, 

 1916, collected under leaves by R. W. Dawson. Histeroides is 

 also recorded from Iowa. 



Copris Geoffry 



1762. Geoffry: "Historie abregee des insectes qui se trouvent aux 



environs de Paris," i, p. 87. 

 1870. Horn : "Notes of some Genera of Coprophagus Scarabaeidae 



of the United States," Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, iii, pp. 42-51. 



(Descriptive notes and table for four species). 

 1906. Schaeffer : "On Bradycinetus and Bolboceras of North Amer- 

 ica, with Notes on other Scarabaeidae," Trans. Amer. Ent. 



Soc, xxxii, pp. 249-260. (Descriptive notes and table for 



seven species.) 

 1910. Blatchley: Coleoptera of Indiana, pp. 915-916. (Descriptive 



notes and tables for three species.) 



SYNOPSIS OF THE SPECIES 



1. Sides of pronotuni sinuate near the front angles, surface of pro- 

 notum dull, coarsely and densely punctate; length 11-18 mm. 

 tullius 



Sides of pronotuni not sinuate, thorax more or less shining, and 

 unevenly punctured; length 8-11 mm [minutusli 



Copris tullius Olivier. 



1789. Scarabaeus tullius Olivier, Ent. Hist. Nat. Ins. Col., i, p. 118, 

 pi. 11, fig. 98, pi. 19, fig. 88. 



Specimens examined : 19 5 , 26 9 , from Nebraska City, 

 Lincoln, Fremont, Hooper, West Point, Holt Co., and Haigler, 

 collected from April 16 to August 16. The name tullius has 

 priority over anaglypticus which has long been used for this 

 species. 



[Copris minutus Drury. 



1773. Scarabaeus minutus Drury, Illustr. exot. Ins., ii, p. 78, pi. 35 

 fig. 6. 



No specimens of this common and widely distributed east- 



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