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(Westw.) is quite distinct and named R, redtenhacheri by Harold, Col. Hefte, 
iii. p. 95. 
Aphudius loncfitarsus {JX&dii.^ — tasmamce (Hope), according to Harold, Col, 
Hefte, iii. p. 94. 
Aphodius scrofa (Fab.). Sharp records its occurrence in liritain, Ent. M, 
Mag. V. p. 100. 
New species \ — 
Aphodius forcipatuSy Harold, Col. Hefte, iii. p. 84, Algeria ; A. centralis^ 
Harold, ibid.. South Africa j A. kraatziy Harold, ibid., Greece, Crete, 
Sarepta . — Aphodius candezei, Harold, Col. Hefte, iv. p. 85, Adelaide. 
Aphodius (^Acrossus) longitarsusy Redtenbacher, Reise der Novara, Zool. ii. 
Col. p. 58, Sydney. 
Coptochirus vidgatus, Harold, Col. Hefte, iii. p. 84, C. excisus, Harold, 1. o. 
p. 86, and C. hrachypterus, Harold, ibid.. South Africa . — Coptochirus pcdlidir- 
pennis (Hej.), Harold, Col. Hefte, iv. p. 84, Cape of Good Hope. — Cop)tochirns 
sinyularisy Harold, Berl. ent. Zeitschr. 1868, p. 396, Asia Minor and Constant 
tinople. 
JEyialia desertorum, Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4^ S(Sr. viii. p. 482, 
Biskra. 
. llhyssemus youdoti (Goj,), Harold, Col. Hefte, iv. p. 85, Madagascar. 
Atwnius. Of this genus Harold describes the following new species (Col. 
Hefte, iii.) ; — A, cleyans, 1. c. p. 85, Brazil ; A. simidator, ibid., Mendoza j A, 
inteyer, I, c. p. 86, and A. arenosus, ibid., Brazil j A. sculptilisy ibid., Vene- 
zuela ; and A. punctipennisy ibid., Columbia . — Atccnius punitory Harold, Col. 
Hefte, iv. p. 85, Para j A. sculptor y Harold, ibid., Columbia. 
Orphnkles. 
Ochodmis, Leconte (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. ii. p. 51) tabulates 10 species 
of this genus known to him as inhabiting North America 3 of these the fol- 
lowing are new : — O. opacusy Kansas ; O. hiarmutusy compleXy sparsus, and 
pectoralisy New Mexico ; and O. duplex , Texas. 
Orphnus hovUy Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® ser. viii. p. 783, and O, 
coquerelii, Fairm. 1. c. p. 784, Nossi-Be. 
OchodcBus canncllinuSy Fairmaire, 1. c. p. 785, O, infuscatus, Fairm, ibid., and 
O. maxillosusy Fairm. 1. c. p. 786, Madagascar. 
Troyides. 
Harold remarks (Col. Hefte, iv. p. 86) that Blanchard has named two 
species Trox yemmifcr \ for the second of these (Voy. d’Orb, p. 188) he pro- 
poses the name of T. yuttifer. 
Trox perrisiiy sp. n., Fairmaire, I c. p. 482, AX^Qrm.— TroxreyulariSyBp. n., 
Harold, Col. Hefte, iv. p. 85, Java ; T. chevrolatiy sp. n., Harold, 1. c. p. 86, 
Cuba. 
Qeotrupides. 
Horn has published (Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc. i. pp. 313-322) an analysis 
of the North- American species of Gcotrupcsy founded upon Jokers treatise 
on that genus. Of the subgenera admitted by Jekel (see < Record,' 1866, 
