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the base of the elytra, subquadrate, narrower in front, and having 

 a slight rise on the middle of each side; the front angles are 

 slightly projecting; the hind angles are rufous; the anterior and 

 lateral margins are dispersedly punctured with a mixture of 

 coarse and fine punctures, the former are narrowly, the latter in- 

 definitely rufous or piceous ; the base is sfightly and obliquely 

 truncate on each side : breast behind the anterior legs obscure, 

 with a very indistinct opake middle line : mesosternum broad, 

 punctured, and with a shallow depression : scutellum depressed 

 and punctured at the base, smooth at the tip : elytra piceous, 

 shining and polished, nearly parallel ; shoulders somewhat pro- 

 minent, of a bright red, and the entire base is also sometimes 

 reddish ; the tip has two red dots or fasciae, or is indefinitely red ; 

 it is punctate-striate, the striae are somewhat deep, the interstices 

 are apparently smooth, but beneath a lens they are indistinctly 

 subrugulose : body beneath very sparingly clothed with fulvous 

 pubescence : femora and coxae black ; femora fringed with a slight 

 pubescence ; tibiae piceous ; posterior tibiae scarcely dilated with 

 subequal teeth ; tarsi ferruginous, sometimes entirely piceous. 



In marshy places on the Berwickshire heaths, and at Prest- 

 wick Car, Northumberland, /. H. ; Tenby, South Wales, T. V. 

 Wollasfon, Esq. May to July. 



I first took this species in Berwickshire in 1845, and recorded 

 it in the ' Berwickshire Naturahsts' CluVs Proceedings ' as ^. 

 granum, deeming that in the tuberculated specimens I had dis- 

 covered the male of that species. I again found it at Prestwick 

 Car in the spring of 1846, and Mr. WoUaston having about the 

 same period taken a fine series of it in Pembrokeshire, kindly 

 pointed out my mistake. 



Ohs. Prom A. granum, to which it bears a close resemblance, 

 this species is primarily distinguished by the tubercles with which 

 the male is beset ; and the red humeral and apical spots or fasciae 

 furnish a constant character in all the specimens of A. uliginosics 

 that I have examined. A. granum is generally larger, has a 

 broader and more distinctly punctured clypeus, the thorax also is 

 broader and rounder as seen from beneath ; the elytra are rela- 

 tively shorter and more tapering at the tips ; the posterior tibiae 

 are broader at the tips and more deeply dentate, and the spines 

 of the tibiae are more distinct than in A. uliginosus. The under 

 surface of A. granum is almost glabrous, and on that part of its 

 breast which is behind the base of the anterior legs, there is a 

 very distinct minutely punctured and shining longitudinal line, 

 but this part in A. uliginosus is quite opake. The mesosternum 

 in A. granum is rather narrow, and the central depression is more 

 lengthened, deeper, and less distinctly punctm-ed than in A. uli- 

 ginosus. 



