Curtonotns.'] ADKniAGA. 7 1 



A. aulica, Panz. {spinipes Auct., nee Liun.). The largest of our 

 species ; u[)i)er side pitch-black, under side pitch-browu or reddish 

 brown ; antennse and palpi red ; thorax very transverse, broadest about 

 middle, sides very strongly rounded, and very much contracted behind, 

 posterior angles very strongly projecting, base punctured in front and 

 l)ehind, with two deep depressions, the outer of which is bounded by a 

 very strong raised fold > elytra broader than base of thorax, convex, 

 deeply striated, the strite punctured; legs red. L. 10-13 mm. 



Under stones, &c., and often on plants; grcnerally distributed and common; 

 not, however, recorded Croiu the extreme uortli of Scotland. 



A. conveziuscula, I\Iarsh. JiLore depressed and elongate, and 

 narrower than llic lucicding ; pitchy, or pitchy black, usually with 

 a slight greenish metallic tinge ; head and thorax narrower, anterior 

 angles of latter more rounded, anterior margin hardly punctured, basal 

 fovete shallower ; elytra narrower with striic more distinctly punctured ; 

 legs and apex of abdomen red. L. 10-11|- mm. 



Damp phices on river banks and on the coast ; under stones and by sweepinjr her- 

 bage. Local ; Whitstable, Heme Bay, Graveseud, Greenwich, Sheerness ; Camber 

 Sand-hills, Rye ; Margate; VValton-on-Naze ; Liverpool; Hyde ; Lymington Salterns ; 

 Yorkshire; Hunstanton; South Shields (nut uncommon about the ballast heaps). 

 Scotland, rare, Edinburgh and Aberdeen. Ireland, Salt Marshes near Cork. 



A. alpina, F. Much smaller than either of the preceding, black, 

 or pitcliy black sometimes with metallic reflection; antennas black with 

 base (one or more joints) red ; thorax transverse, with sides not so 

 strongly rounded or contracted behind as in the preceding species, base 

 smooth in the middle with two strong foveie on each side, very 

 coarsely punctured ; elytra alwut as broad as middle of thorax, somc- 

 tinu^s slightly narrower, strongly striated, the striie very plainly 

 punctured. L. 8-9 mm. 



Very rare; summit of " Grayvel " Rannoch, and Braemar; the specimens from 

 the former place belong to the variety with dull reddish elytra, with the suture 

 broadly and obscurely darker. Dr. Sharp's specimen, from Braemar, which 1 have 

 before me, is quite black with two joints of the antennas bright red, and the third 

 more obscurely red : it appears to be a very variable insect as regards colour. 



(Sub-Gen. Percosia, Zimmermann.) 



A. Patricia, Duft. {cquedrifi, Duft.). Black or pitch-black, very 

 shining, undm-side ])rown red, margins of thorax sometimes reddish ; 

 mouth anil antenna; red ; thorax much broader than long, with .sides 

 sliglitly narrowed in front, straight behind, posterior angles right angles, 

 very slightly prominent, side margins rather strong, central furrow dis- 

 tinct, base with tw^o strung punctured fovese on each side covering 

 almost the whole sinvce between the dorsal line and tlio angles ; elytra 

 broad oval, a little broader at base than base of thorax, strongly striated, 

 the strite plainly punctured ; legs red ; the male has the intermediate 

 tibiic moderately curved. L. 8-10 mm. 



