We are Japanese Entomological society specialized in Scarabaeoid beetles (Coleoptera, Scarabaeoidea).

Contents:

●Notes on Lucanus ritae Lacroix, 1984, a junior synonym of Lucanus datunensis Hashimoto, 1984
Kunio Araya --- 1

●A new species of the genus Dorcus MacLeay (Coleoptera,Lucanidae) from east Indonesia
Norio Okuda --- 5

●A new spesies of the ruteline genus Peltonotus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) from southern Vietnam (In Japanese.)
Rieko Muramoto --- 9

●A new species of the genus Fruhstorferia Kolbe,1894 (Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae) from northern Thailand
Rieko Muramoto & Kunio Araya --- 12

●Notes on the genus Parastasia (Scarabaeidae, Rutelinae) from the Oriental region 1. Redescription of Parastasia dalatina Kuijten, 1992
Kaoru Wada --- 17

●Male trimorphism in the horned beetle Allomyrina dichotoma septentrionalis (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)
Yutaka Iguchi --- 21

●Notes on the cetoniine beetles (Scarabaeidae, Cetoniinae) from Fukue-jima Is., Nagasaki, Japan, with description of a new subspecies of Rhomborhina unicolor (In Japanese.)
Kaoru Sakai --- 25

●Some dynastid beetles belonging to the tribe Pentodontini(Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) from southern Vietnam, with the descriptionof a new species
Shigeto Yamaya --- 31

●Rediscovery of Aphodius (Chilothorax) punctatus Waterhousefrom Kyushu, Japan as a good species (In Japanese.)
Kimio Masumoto, Teruo Ochi, Makoto Kiuchi, Takeshi Miyake & Masakazu Kawahara --- 35

●New synonym of Ataenius australasiae (Boheman)(Scarabaeidae, Aphodiinae) (In Japanese.)
Makoto Kiuchi --- 39

●New record of Aphodius (Colobopterus) propraetor Balthasar (Scarabaeidae, Aphodiinae) from Japan (In Japanese.)
Makoto Kiuchi --- 41

●Taxonomic notes on some Japanese coprophagous lamellicorn beetles (Coleoptera,Scarabaeoidea)
Teruo Ochi --- 43

Short Reports

●A new record of Copris pecuarius Lewis (Scarabaeidae,Scarabaeinae) from Kyushu, Japan (In Japanese.)
Yoshitomo Mimura --- 8

●A new record of Aphodius (Acrossus) rufipes (Linnaeus, 1758) from Tsushima Is., Nagasaki, Japan (In Japanese.)
Yoshitaka Kanada & Hiroshi Kidono --- 24

●The hind wings’ color difference of Protaetia orientalis and Protaetia brevitarsis (In Japanese.)
Katsuya Yamamoto --- 30