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writing, the others were placed in a box of moist soil, from 

 which the beetles emerged the following August. The food 

 pods were all pear-shaped, and very uniform in size, measur- 

 ing about two inches in length by one inch in their greatest 

 diameter. The pods are interesting because of their rela- 

 tively large size, and from being composed entirely of clean, 

 fresh grass blades. A greater bulk of clean food seems to be 

 required than is the case with the more concentrated mate- 

 rial (droppings of animals) most freqently used by the beetles 

 in this section of the family Scarabaeidae. 



Glaphyrini 



Form oblong, not convex; remarkable for the long hairs 

 on the legs and under surface; head and pronotum also, 

 usually densely covered with long hairs; elytra spreading 

 apart to the tips and pygidium exposed ; adults frequenting 

 flow'ers. 



Amphicoma Latreille 



1807. Latreille: Genera Crustaceorum et Insectorum, ii, p. 118. 



1861. Horn: "Descriptions of New Genera and Species of "Western 

 Scarabaeidae, with Notes on Others Already Known", Trans. 

 Amer. Ent. Soc, i, pp. 163-170. (Characterization of 2 

 species). 



1882. Horn: "Notes on Some Little Known Genera and Species of 

 Coleoptera", Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, x, pp. 113-126. 



1901. Fall: "Coleoptera of Southern California", Calif. Acad. Sci., 

 pp. 139, 255. (List of species and descriptive notes). 



Amphicoma vulpina Hentz. 



1826. Amphicoma vulpina Hentz, Journ. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., v, p. 

 374, pi. 13, fig. 3. 



Specimens examined: 1, from Dismal River in July. 



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