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5. Copris. 



Sp. 1 & 4. CEdipus Sf Iacchus. — These two species 

 of Copris appear to belong to a sub-genus. Copris 

 Syphax of Kirby may also be united with them. 



Sp. 2. Rhadamisthus. — This insect cannot be con- 

 sidered as a true Oniticellus with which the Baron 

 De Jean has ranged it, as both sexes appear to pos- 

 sess anterior tarsi. Several, indeed, of the subscu- 

 tellated Onitidae (with the exception of Onitis 

 Apelles) have the males only provided with them. 

 I propose the term Scaptodera, from o-Konrrco fodeo 

 et Seprj collum, as a generic term, to include this 

 insect and its allied species. The following are the 

 details : — " Genus forsitan inter Onitim et Oniti- 

 cellum ponendum. Exscutellatum. Clypeus rotun- 

 datus, capite inermi, Thorax late foveolatus antice 

 cornutus. Tibiae anteriores in utroque sexu tarsis in- 

 structae. In reliquis Oniticello convenit." A second 

 species of Scaptodera I have received from Captain 

 Smee, from near Salsette, and by my journal I find 

 a third is in the Leyden collection ; all are from the 

 East Indies. 



Sp. 9- Conspicillatus. — Mr. MacLeay, in his 

 Horae Entomologicae gives five types of form be- 

 longing to Phanaeus ; the fourth affords a sufficient 



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