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ZOOLOGICAL LITERATURE. 
Hetet'ocerus penescenSf sp. n.^ Kiesenwetter, Berl. ent. Zeits. 1866, p. 368, 
note, from Seville. 
LuCANIDiE. 
Chevi’olat (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. tome iv. pp. 408-410) describes the 
following known species from Cuba ; — Passalus inter stitialis (Esch.), con^ 
vexus (Dalm.), pellicatus (Perch.), hinominatus (Perch.), and affinis (Perch). 
Platycems cribratus, sp. n., Mulsant & Fey, Ann. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 
tome X. p. 7, from Beaujolais. 
Passalus pentaphyUus, sp. n., Chevr. Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s<5r, tome iv. 
p. 410, from St. Domingo and Cuba, 
^ , SCARABiEIDiE. 
Copndes, 
Chevrolat (Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr. 4® s^r. tome iv. p. 410) describes only 
Onthophac/us marginatus (Lap.) and Oniticcllus cuhiensis (Lap.) as known 
species fi*om Cuba. 
A, MUller (Entomologist, ii. p. 252) records the occurrence, near Basle, of 
abundance of Copris Itmarisj Sisyphus schlifferij and Geotrupes typhceus^ which 
have not been met with in that district for many years. 
Outhojjhayus ?ner(larius, sp. n., Chevrolat, llev. et Mag. Zool. 1865, p. 350, 
from Valladolid. 
Aphodiides. 
Chevrolat (/. c. pp. 412-414) describes the following known species of 
this group from Cuba : — Aphodius Uvidus (Creutz.), quadridentatus (Harold), 
- Auperia stercorator (Fab.), and Psammodius yracilis (J. Duv.). 
Myialia rufa (Fab.) is recorded as British by Crotch, Proc. Ent. Soc. 
Nov. 1865, Ent. M. Mag. ii. p. 169. 
Aphodius cimictdus, sp. n.,’Cheyr. 1. c. p. 411, from Cuba. 
Auperia rhyticephaluy sp. n., Chevr. 1. c. p. 413, A. sulcatula, sp. n., 
Chevr. ibid., and A, terminalis (Dej.), Chevr. 1. c. p. 414, from Cuba. 
Psammodius parvulusj sp. n., Chevr. 1. c. p. 415, from Cuba. 
Hybosorides. ^ 
Chevrolat (/. c. p. 416), describes Apalonychus waterhousei (Westw.) = 
Trichops testaceus (J. Duv.), from Cuba. 
Geotrupides, 
Chevrolat (/. c. p. 416) describes Athyreus castaneus (Guer.) as a Cuban 
species, and cites A. anyulatus (King) as synonymous with it. 
A species of Bolboccras found by Odewahn burrowing in a hard road at' 
Gawler (South Australia) is stated to make a noise like a Longicorn, by 
moving the small pulvilli beneath the hind coxce.” Proc. Ent. Soc. 1865, 
p. 88. This sound is said to be caused by the rotation of the hind coxm 
in the cotyloid cavities, the surfaces both of the coxee and cavities being 
striated. Ibid. p. 107. 
Tt'ogides, 
Chevrolat (/. c. p. 416) describes IVox crenatus (Oliv.) as a known species 
from Cuba, and regards 2\ punctalus (Germ.) and T. muricaius (Dej.) as 
