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VOL. IV. BROOKLYN, AUGUST, 1881. No. 4. 



Description of a new species of Aphodius. 

 By John L. Leconte, M. D. 

 (Reprint from E. V. Harolds Coleopterlogische Hefte X, 193. Muenchen 1872.) 

 A. opacus: Oblongus, ater, opacus. suiura niiida; capite hemihexagono, 

 modice convexo, antice late subemarginato, angulis obiusis rotundatis, conferiim 

 pundulato; prothorace sat dense subtilius punctate, apict pilisbrevibus fulvis fim- 

 briate, later ibus fere par allelis, subsinuatis, bast subsubsinuatim rotundato et 

 lenuiter marginato, angulis anticis et posticis .wide rotundatis: elytris prothorace 

 hand lalioribus, strv's angustis puuctatis, interstitiis planissimis, obsolete 

 punctulatis. — Long. 6 mm. 



Vancouver Island; one specimen, Mr. Matthews. The head is not 

 tuberculate. the mesosternum is net carinate; the transverse ridges of the 

 hind tibia? are very distinct and the apical fringe is composed of very short 

 spines, which are nearly but not quite equal. The teeth of the front tib- 

 iae are well marked and prominent. The prothorax is nearly, but not 

 quite twice as wide as its length. The under surface is black, moderately 

 shining, rather coarsely punctered; tarsi and palpi brown. Antenna; 

 black, with grayish pubescence. 



Note. — We reprint the foregoing description from a work hardly 

 accessible to most of the coleopterists of this country and we intend here- 

 after to publish from time to time the descriptions of single species con- 

 tained in foreign periodicals not within reach of most of our collectors. 



Editor. 



