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Specimens examined : 28 5 , 13 ? , from West Point, Hal- 

 sey and Mitchell, collected during May and June, Walshi is 

 a common species in central Nebraska on sandy soil. Profes- 

 sor Brunner reported it as "fairly swarming" at Halsey, May 

 17, 1912. This species properly belongs in that section of the 

 genus with pubescent elytra, but it has been run out a second 

 time in the table to take care of those specimens on which the 

 inconspicuous, deciduous pubescence has been lost. 



Aphodius femoralis Say. 



1823. Aphodius femoralis Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, 

 pp. 215-216. Le Conte ed., ii, p. 139. 



Specimens examined: 106, from Fort Calhoun, Omaha, 

 South Bend, Ashland, Cedar Bluffs, Peru, Lincoln, West 

 Point, and Bradshaw, collected from March 2 to Septem- 

 ber 19. 



Aphodius oblongus Say. 



1823. Aphodius oblongus Say, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iii, 

 p. 215. Le Conte ed, ii, p. 138. 



Specimens examined : 1 $ , taken at Lincoln in March. 

 The known distribution of this species is from Pennsylvania 

 to Colorado and Arizona. 



Ataenius Harold 



1867. Harold: Col. Hefte, ii, p. 100. 



1871. Horn: "Synopsis of Aphodiini of the United States", Trans. 

 Amer. Ent. Soc, iii, pp. 284-297. (Descriptive notes for 15 

 species). 



1875. Horn: "Synonymical Notes and Descriptions of New Species 

 of North American Coleoptera", Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, v, 

 pp. 126-156. (Synonymy of the species described by Harold 

 in Coleopterologische Hefte, xii, 1874). 



1887. Horn: "A Monograph of the Aphodiini Inhabiting the 

 United States", Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, xiv, pp. 1-110. 

 (Table and full descriptions for 26 species). 



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