Notes and records of Scarabaeidae from the Southeastern United States

Mycotrupes lethroides (Westwood). New records. Georgia: Burke Co., 7 miles north- west of Girard on SR 23, 31-XII-1993 (5 males, 2 females); Richmond Co., 1/2 mile east Richmond/Jefferson Co. line (Brier creek) on US Hwy. 1, 16-1-1995 (2 males, 1 female). These records extend the range approximately 30 miles southeast and 15 miles southwest of the only location previously recorded for this species in modem times: "on a sandy hilltop south of Rocky creek, a short distance south of Augusta on U.S. Highway No. 1" (A. L. Olson, et al., 1954, Misc. Publ. Mus. Zool. Univ. Michigan 84:1-59). The specimens from the Girard area were dug up within feet of a fermenting malt pitfall trap which had been in place for two days, but attracted no specimens even though there was evidence of recent surface activity (fresh pushups). I uncovered both males (Brier creek record) from under fully mature earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma Persoon). Onthophagus depressus Harold. New State Record. South Carolina: Jasper Co., Ridge- land, 14-VIII-1994 (1 male); Aiken Co., White Pond, 12-VI-1993 (1 male). This intro- duced African species was dug from shallow burrows in sandy roads. Melanocanthon bispinatus (Robinson). Individual M. bispinatus were observed on two separate occasions burying dead carabids and cicindelids in a sandy road near White Pond, Aiken Co, South Carolina. Bolboceras darlingtoni (Wallis). This species was collected on several occasions in South Carolina feeding on immature earthball mushrooms (Scleroderma) in December and January. Beetles were collected by excavating several small clusters of pushups among pine litter which had been carefully scraped away.