SOARAB^IDJE. 
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Coprides, 
Lansberge’s classification of tbe Ateuchides (Ann. Ent. Belg. xvii.) 
reproduced and favourably criticized, objection being taken to the 
use of that name for the group, since AteucTius is deposed for ScarabceuSf 
and to the proposed genus Octodon, pre-occupied in Mammalia [on both 
points, cf. Zool. Rec. xi. pp. 280 & 553]'; 0. A. Dohrn, S. E. Z. xxxvi. 
pp. 157-187. 
The group Onitides monographed by G. van Lansberge, Ann. Ent. 
Belg. xviii. pp. 5-148. The whole tribe is divided into Onthophagides 
and Coprides^ the former composed of Onitides (sub-divided as Drepano- 
cerides and Onitides) and Onthophagides. The absence of a terminal 
spur from the anterior tibiae of the male is relied upon as a distinguishing 
character of the Onitides propel, which only are discussed by the author. 
Tragiscus, Klug, is dubiously referred to Oniticellus. The $ of Onitis 
lophus, F., and schreihersi^ Dahl, = irroratus, var. (as does 0. furcifer^ 
Charp., $ ; teste Harold, 0. H.xiv. p. 167) ; 0. tridens, Cast., is described 
from Senegal, p. 56 ; 0. fodiens, Boh;, = uncinatus, Klug, var. ; 0. per- 
plexus, Boh., = fahricii, Roth, var. minor ; 0. lycophron, Klug, = illU 
geri, Roth, = abyssinicus, Rche. ; 0. inuus, Hbst., = aygulus, F. ; 0. 
alexis, Klug, = sphinx, F., var. ; 0. shoensis, Boh., nee Rche., is renamed 
vicinus, p. 95 ; 0. cupreus, Har., = ceruginosus, Klug, ^ ; 0. cupreus, 
Har., ?,= Jclugi, Har., — pales, Klug, = fulgidus, Klug; 0. chevrolati, 
Lucas, = humerosus, Pall. ; 0. falcatus, Wulf., is erroneously described 
from Africa, and comes from India and China. (For review, cf. E. v. 
Harold, C. H. xiv. p. 165.) 
Chceridium lecontii, Harold, differentiated from histeroides, Web. [it is 
not put as a synonym, but as a var., in Crotch’s Check List] ; Ontho- 
phagus scabricollis, Kby., striatulus and subceneus, Beauv., protensus^ 
Melsh., canadensis, F., —janus, Pz. ; 0. rhinoceros, Melsh., nuchicornis, 
ii., which is not American ; G. H. Horn, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. v. pp. 137-141. 
Canthidium poUtum, Har., = trinodosum. Boh.; E. v. Harold, C. H. 
xiii. p. 61. 
Pinotus scalpellum, Tasch., = cotopaxi, Gu^r., from Ecuador ; id. 1. c. 
p. 104, and Deutsche E. Z. 1875, p. 211, note. P. rotundatus, Burm., is 
distinct from P. rotundatus, Blanch. ; id., C. H. xiii. p. 181. 
Synapsis. Observations on the existing species; Copris thoas, Dej. 
Cat., from Java, being also referred to this genus : D. Sharp, CR. Ent. 
Belg. xviii. pp. iv. & v. S. ritsemoe, Lansb., ? = brahminus, Hope ; id. 
C. H. xiii. p. 45. Cf. also C. Ritsema, C. H. xiv. p. 211. 
Onthophagus Sagittarius and oryx, from Java, are respectively J & $ 
of the same species, the former name standing ; 0. saiga, Ball., = pygar- 
gus, Mots. ; 0. divaricatus, W. MacLeay, ex. typ., — nodulifer, Har. ; E. 
V. Harold, C. H. xiv. pp. 210 211. 
Caccophilus, and even Caccobius, not accepted as generically distinct 
from Onthophagus ; D. Sharp, C. H. xiii. p. 52. 
New genera and species : — 
Tapeinopterus \Tapin-'], Lansberge, 1. c. p. 15. Affords a passage to 
Drepanocerus and JCurysternus ; elytra quite flat, 3rd joint of labial palpi 
