TROX.— ANALDES. 117 



5. Trox suberosus. 



Trox suberosus, Eabr. Syst. Ent. p. 31 (1775) ; Harold, Col. Hefte, ix. p. 119 \ 



Trox crenatus, Oliv. Ent. i. 4, p. 7, t. 1. f. 4 (1789) ; Chevr. Ann. Soc, Ent. Er. 1864, p. 416 \ 



Trox alternatus, Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. i. p. 179 (1835) 3 ; Complete Writings, ii. p. 652. 



Omorgus punctatus, Lee. Proc. Ac. Phil. vii. p. 215 (1854) 4 . 



Trox nobilis, Woll. Col, Hesperidum, p. 93 (1867) 5 . 



Hab. Noeth America 123 4 . — Mexico 1 2 , Northern Sonora (Morrison), San Pedro in 

 Coahuila, Guajuco in Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi (Dr. Palmer), Tres Marias Islands 

 (Forrer), Cordova, Guanajuato, Tuxtla (Salle), Matamoros Izucar, Chilpancingo, Aguas 

 Calientes, Chihuahua city, Ventanas, Villa Lerdo, Acapulco, Durango city, Jalapa, San 

 Juan Bautista, Vera Cruz, Tapachula (Edge), Acapulco (J. J. Walker) ; Nicaragua, 

 Chontales (Belt). — South America 2 to Patagonia 1 ; Antilles 2 ; Africa ; Cape Verde 

 Islands 5 . 



I have copied the chief synonymy of this widely spread and common insect from 

 Von Harold's Monograph, in which the species and its varieties are fully described. 

 Morrison's examples from Northern Sonora are all of large size, the " var. a " of 

 Von Harold. 



6. Trox acanthinus. (Tab. VII. fig. 19.) 



Trox acanthinus, Harold, Col. Hefte, ix. p. 154 \ 

 Hab. Mexico \ San Andres Chalchicomula (Salle). 



7. Trox lecontei. 



Trox lecontei, Harold, Col. Hefte, ix. p. 156 \ 

 Hab. North America, Southern States 1 . — Mexico \ Puebla (Salle), Jalapa (Hoge). 



8. Trox sonoraB. 



Trox sonorce, Lee. Proc. Ac. Phil. 1854, p. 211 1 . 

 Trox alternans, Lee. loc. cit. p. 211 (nom. prseocc.) 2 . 

 Trox lecontei, var., Harold, Col. Hefte, ix. pp. 157, 158 3 . 



Hab. North America, Kansas and New Mexico 2 .— Mexico, Sonora l . 



It is on Dr. Horn's authority that T. altemans is referred, above, to T. sonorce as a 

 synonym. According to Von Harold 3 it is only a large and strongly-sculptured form of 

 T. lecontei. 



ANAIDES. 

 Anaides, Westwood, Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.iv. p. 167 (1845) ; Erichson, Ins. Deutschl. i. 3, p. 924, 



A genus confined to Tropical America. Two species only have been previously 

 described. 



