20 LAMELLICORNIA. [ Aphodius. 
with blackish club; thorax large, coarsely punctured with an inter- 
mixture of fine small punctures; elytra short with rather strong crenate 
strie, the interstices flat and very finely punctured ; legs black or pitehy 
with reddish tarsi. L. 3-43 mm. 
Male with the thorax broader and more diffusely punctured on dise 
than in the female, and with the central frontal tubercle more distinct. 
In dung; generally distributed and common throughout the greater part of 
England and Wales ; not so common further north, and very doubtful as Scottish, 
the only record being “ Fields near Colinton and irrigated meadows at Restalrig’’ 
(Ent. Edin.), which Dr. Sharp considers as very probably erroneous. I have no record 
of the species from Ireland, but it almost certainly occurs in that country. 
A. foetens, F. Subovate, rather broad, convex, shining black with the 
elytra bright red, and the anterior angles of thorax yellowish-red, abdomen 
almost always red; head finely punctured, antenne red with reddish- 
yellow club, palpi red with the base of the last joint blackish; thorax ample, 
with large and irregular scattered punctures, the space between being ex- 
tremely finely punctured; scutellum moderate, punctured ; elytra with 
rather strong crenate striz, the interstices broad and almost smooth ; legs 
black or reddish-black with the tarsi reddish. L. 5-7 mm. 
Male with the central frontal tubercle sharply raised, and the thorax 
impressed in front. 
In dung; local; London district, not common, Mickleham, Shirley, Addington ; 
St. Peter’s, Kent ; Pegwell Bay ; Folkestone ; Hastings; Dover; Glanvilles Wootton ; 
Devon; Bath; Burnham, Somerset; Swansea; Hunstanton; Midland districts, 
widely distributed ; Scalby, York; Cleethorpes; Liverpool; Northumberland and 
Durham district ; Scotland, very rare, Forth district ; Dr. Sharp once found a colony 
of the species at North Queensferry on June 20th, 1865; Ireland, near Dublin. 
A. fimetarius, L. Black, shining, with the elytra bright red and 
the abdomen entirely black; very closely allied to the preceding, but 
apart from the colour of the abdomen it may be distinguished by its 
narrower form, shorter and evidently more transverse thorax, and pro- 
portionally longer elytra; the forehead in the male has the usual three 
tubercles obsolete, and in the femele they are almost wanting; the 
metasternum, moreover, in the former sex is impressed. L, 4—6 mm. 
In dung ; very abundant and generally distributed throughout the kingdom, 
In the “ Entomologist’s Monthly Magazine,” vol. xxii. p. 163, will be 
found a note by myself regarding an article by M. des Gozis in the 
“Revue d’Entomologie ” for 1885, Nos. 4 and 5, concerning certain 
closely allied species of Coleoptera; in this article he says that a con- 
venient character for separating A. fotens and A. jfimetarius is presented 
by the apical region of the elytra, which in the former is finely 
punctured, but is still smooth and shining, and differs in no respect from 
the interstices on the disc; in A. fimetarius, however, it is rugose and 
dull, and thus differs very much from the interstices on the disc which 
are smooth and polished ; it is certainly true that the apical region is 
more punctured in A. fimetarius than in A. fetens, yet this may be 
