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May 27/68/ Onitis furcifer no strid. on coxæ of hind legs of ♂ or ♀ or any part. The spurs on femur of ant. legs seem to act as guides or protection to tibia when drawn inwards - The two spikes on thorax, I can make out no use for.

Phanæus carnifex. no strid. in ♂ - thighs resplendent. on coxa of Post legs.

♀ Typhœus with just as good a strid. as male or better & stridulate by using hind legs}

Oryctes nasicornis ♂ no stri.} on coxa

Bubas bison do do

 

Geotrupes stercorarius both sexes have strid. all

Copris cantharis♂ 0 strid.

Bolbocerus farctus 0 Lethrus cephalotes 0

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Put * to Chiarig. The strid: [appal] is probably not sexual. At least Dr L (wissen) found it in both sexes of Ge. stercorarius (?)

It is also present in both sexes of G. & of Typhæus

There is no strid: apparatus on the coxa of the hind legs as the males of ..... Copris Phanæus.

Put in note to 2 means Geotrupes & Oryctes - in latter possibly sexual.

I might get from E. W. Janson of Zo Museum some other species of Geotrupes, both sexes & of Dynastidæ