318 COLEOPTEIIA. 
Aphodiides. 
Aphodius arcticuSf Harold, = congregatus^ Mann. ; A. steinheili, Har., 
= serval. Say ; Atcenius attenuator, Har., and ? texanus, Har., = ahditus, 
Hald. ; At. lecontii^ Har., = ovatulus^ Horn, = cylindrus, Horn, type 
form, from which Aorm, Har., is not specifically distinct; At. socialis, 
Har., = socialise Horn; G. H. Horn, Tr. Am. Ent. Soc. v. pp. 141 & 
142. 
Aphodius obliteratus and contaminatus. Des Gozis adheres to his col- 
location of these [perfectly distinct] species, in answer to Kraatz and 
Abeille de Perrin ; Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) v. p. ix. 
Psdmmodius, Clyll., = ^gialia, Latr., and Psammohius, Heer, must be 
used for sulcicollis, &c. ; E. v. Harold, 0. H. xiii. p. 105. Aphodius 
geminatus^ W. MacLeay, is a Pedaria ; id. op. cit. xiv. p. 211. 
Aphodius magicus, L. Fairmaire, Ann. Mus. Genov, vii. p. 507, Tozer, 
Tunis; A. arabicus, E. y. Harold, C. H. xiii. p. 89, Egypt, Arabia; A. 
major, p. 80, lividipennis, p. 81, diver sus (also in China), p. 82, castanei- 
pennis and nigerrimus, p. 83, uniplagiatus and uniformis, p. 84, impung- 
tatus and pallidicinctus (also China), p. 85, obsolete-guttatus, p. 86, palli- 
dilig onis Siud punctatus, p. 87, obsoletus (also China), p. 88, ovalis and 
rufangulus, p. 89, variabilis, p. 90, atratus, p. 91, rugoso-striatus and 
lewisi, p. 92, C. O. Waterhouse, Tr. E. Soc. 1875, Japan ; spp. nn. 
Ammcecius nitidulus, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 93, Nagasaki. 
Saprosites japonicuSf Bp. n., id. ibid.l^&g&soki. 
Rhyssemus asperulus^ id. 1. c. p. 94, Nagasaki ; R. orientalis, E. Mulsant 
& A. Godart, Ann. Soc. L. Lyon (n.s.) xxi, p. 411, Beyrouth: spp. nn. 
Atcenius australis, sp. n., E. v. Harold, 1. c. p. 89, S. Australia, 
Psammodius allceonis, L. Fairmaire, Bull. Soc. Ent. Fr. (5) v. p. cxciii. 
Constantinople ; P. convexus, C. O. Waterhouse, 1. c. p. 94, Kobe : 
spp. nn. 
^gialia nitida, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 95, ■ Hakodadi. 
Hyhosorides. 
Arceotanypus, g. n., C. O. Waterhouse, Ann. N. H. (4) xv. p. 404. An- 
tennae with ? 11 joints, but provisionally placed near Hapalonychus, 
which has only 10 joints : many characters suggest an affinity to Serica. 
Type, A. boops, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 405, N’Gami, S. Africa. 
Oeotrypides. 
Athyreus soveicollis, G. v. Koch (Abh. Ges. Niirnb. iv. 1868, p. 94), 
should be written foveicollis, and = tridentatus, Mad. ; observations on 
another species described by this author ; G. Kraatz, Deutsche E. Z. 
1875, p. 435. 
Bolboceras gallicum. On its habits near Marseilles; L. v. Heyden, 
Deutsche E. Z. 1875, p. 376. 
Ochodceus maculatus, sp. n., C. O. Waterhouse, Tr. E. Soc. 1875, p. 95, 
pi. iii. fig. 1, Japan. 
Bolboceras nigro-plagiatum, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 96, Japan and Corea. 
Geotrypes {Phelotrypes') purpurascens, sp. n., id. 1. c. p. 97, Japan and 
Celebes. 
