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

Contents:

●Memorial tribute to late Mr. Masaaki Ishida
Kaoru Wada --- 2

●Notes on the genus Didrepanephorus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)
Rieko Muramoto & Masayuki Fujioka --- 5

●New records of Ataenius picinus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)
Shinya Kawai --- 9

●Notes on the Dynastinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) from Southeast Asia (1)
Shigeto Yamaya --- 11

●Data on the life span after the capture in the females of Nipponodorcus montivagus (Coleoptera, Lucanidae) and some other lucanids
Masanori Yamamoto --- 12

●Has the body coloration of Geotrupes auratus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) changed in the Nara Park, Japan
Kuniyasu Mizuta --- 15

●Information on some foreign Cetoniinae (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)
Kaoru Sakai --- 17

●The risk in the cancellation of import restriction for living foreign lucanid and dynastine beetles
Kunio Araya --- 20

●Visiting the Halle Museum, Germany, in search of the Burmeister's type specimens
Masahiro Kon & Kunio Araya --- 23

●Report on the collecting trip to the Nansei Islands, Japan
Shigeo Shirasugi --- 27

●In search of the female Amphicoma pectinata (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)
Shinji Harashima --- 37

●Dung beetles collected from the Oki Islands, Japan, in July
Makoto Kiuchi --- 41

●Notes on the biology of adult Aphodius hibernalis (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)
Shigeto Yamaya --- 43

●Notes on the biology of adult Ochodaeus maculatus maculatus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)
Toru Horiguchi --- 44

●Notes on the distribution of Onthophagus olsoufieffi (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)
Yoshiyuki Nagahata --- 48

●Field guide in Japan. [1] Mt. Gomadanzan, Wakayama Prefecture
Takeshi Itoh --- 50

●Guide to the collecting methods. [1] Collecting Bolbocerosoma nigroplagiatum (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) by digging into the ground
Shinya Kawai --- 54

●Identification guide with illustrations. [1] Japanese Trogidae (Coleoptera) (1)
Teruo Ochi --- 57

Short Reports

●Additional record of Onthophagus yakuinsulanus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)
Keiichi Tsukamoto --- 45

●A record of Protaetia ishigakia (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) from Is. Awakunijima, Japan
Kaoru Sakai --- 46

●On a melanized form of Gametis jucunda (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae)
Kaoru Sakai --- 46

●Records of three species of the genus Trox (Coleoptera, Trogidae) from Mt. Hoki-Daisen, Japan
Nobuo Sano --- 47

●Caelius denticollis (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) collected in June
Nobuo Sano --- 67