S80 Mr. J. Hardy on new British Coteoptera, 



punctures round the scutellum ; the base of the elytra is about the 

 breadth of the middle of the thorax : legs with the femora strongly 

 constricted before the apex ; the tibise attenuated at the base, sub- 

 clavate at the apex ; the tarsi paler, ferruginous, with the last 

 joint spatulate, elongate and attenuated. 



I took a single specimen under the bark of Alnus glutinosa on 

 the margin of the river Derwent, near Gibside, in June. 



Obs. The projecting eyes, black and rather small club of the 

 antennse, rounded thorax, cyaneous elytra, and the convexity of 

 the insect, are its obvious features. 



Aphodius subalpinus. Hardy. 



Niger, nitidus, clypeo emarginato, punctate rugose, tuberculis tribus, 

 medio subcornuto ; maris thorace convexo rotundato-ampliato 

 disco punctis subtilibus minus frequenter dispositis, feminse sub-- 

 quadrato angustiore punctis mediis frequenter obsitis ; elytris 

 nigris humeris apicibusque rufis, vel totis rufis, punctate- striatis, 

 interstitiis punctulatis ; corpore subtus fulve-pubescente ; pedibus 

 nigris, tarsis rufescentibus. Long. cerp. lin. 3 — ^\. 



Male. Black, glossy, robust : clypeus emarginate, punctate- 

 rugose in front and in a less degree behind ; the margin is ele- 

 vated ; the surface is unequal ; there is a large central tubercle on 

 the crown, and on each side a minute and almost obsolete one, 

 being an elevated portion of a ridge that runs behind the central 

 tubercle, and bends obliquely to join the margin before it reaches 

 the hinder angle, which is distinct, rounded, and finely ciliated : 

 base of the antennse rufous ; club clothed with a changeable ful- 

 vous or slaty pubescence : thorax convex, approaching to globose, 

 widened at the middle, considerably broader in front than the 

 clypeus, and behind than the base of the elytra, divided by a 

 nearly obsolete middle line which is most discernible at the base, 

 finely and somewhat distantly punctured on the disc, but be- 

 coming more thickly and distinctly punctured on the sides, a 

 number of larger punctures being intermixed with those of 

 smaller size ; the lateral margins are finely ciliated with fulvous 

 hairs arising from the breast : mesosternum with a large, deep, 

 lozenge-shaped, and distinctly punctured depression : scutellum 

 punctured at the base, smooth at the apex : elytra convex and 

 black ; the apex and sometimes the base and the shoulders, and 

 even the whole elytra are red ; they are punctate-striate, narrowed 

 at the base, compressed before the middle, expanded towards the 

 apex, and about as broad as the thorax ; the interstices are flat- 

 tish, minutely and distantly punctured ; the punctures increase 

 in size and number at the apex : body clothed beneath with ful- 

 vous pubescence, more particularly on the prothorax, the sides 

 of the breast and the apex of the abdomen : legs black ; femora, 



