NEW DATA ON ANTILLEAN SCARABAEINE BEETLES, 
AND TWO NEW SPECIES FROM HISPANIOLA 
By E. G. Matthews 1 
Department of Biology, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras, P.R. 
The author has recently been able to examine material in the 
Museum of Comparative Zoology (MCZ) collected by Dr. P. J. 
Darlington, Jr., in Cuba in the 1920’s and 1936, and Hispaniola in 
1934 and 1938. The canthonines among this material were previously 
on loan to another specialist and could not be examined during the 
author’s preparation of his revision of the Scarabaeinae of the Antilles 
(Matthews, 1966). Included are three undescribed species of 
Canthochilum from Hispaniola, where the genus was previously 
thought to be absent. Two of these species are here described, and 
the opportunity is taken to note some new distribution records and 
corrections, make some nomenclatorial changes, comment on some 
type material in European and Australian museums recently visited, 
and discuss some new generic names proposed by Vulcano and 
Pereira (1966). 
Species and genera for which new data are available are discussed 
below in the same order as in the author’s revision (Matthews, 1966). 
Onthophagus albicornis Palisot, 1805. 
A previously unrecorded locality for the subspecies albicornis 
Palisot is: Cap Haitien, on the north coast of Haiti. For the sub- 
species capitatus Laporte, 1840: N.E. foothills La Hotte, Grande 
Riviere, Ennery, Mt. Trou d’Eau, Diquini, St. Marc, Manneville, 
N. of Dessalines, and Camp Perrin, all in Haiti. This shows that 
capitatus occurs northward along the west coast of Haiti at least as 
far as Dessalines, while albicornis (widespread in the Dominican 
Republic) occurs westward along the north coast of Haiti. The 
two must meet somewhere on Cap St. Nicolas, and specimens col- 
lected there will decide whether we are dealing with two subspecies 
or two species. Intermediates have still not been seen. 
Oniticellus cubiensis Laporte, 1840. 
The type series of this species could not be found in the Paris 
^Present address: Division of Entomology, C.S.I.R.O., Canberra, A.C.T.. 
Australia 
Manuscript received by the editor February 15, 1969 
