22 LAMELLICORNIA. [ Aphodius. 
In dunz, &c.; local and, asa rule, rare; Belvedere (T. Wood) ; Ventnor, Isle of Wight ; 
Devon; Bath, common in early spring (Gillo); Cheshire; Tintwistle, Yorkshire 
(Chappell); Northumberland and Durham district, Wallington (Power) and near 
Hartley; Scotland, very Jocal, Tay district, recorded by Dr. Sharp as common in 
ox-dung at Rannoch in the first week of May, 1866. 
This species very closely resembles A. granarius, but may be at once 
known by the much thicker punctuation of the thorax. 
A. granarius, L. (concolor, Muls.; retusus, Waltl.). Oblong, 
moderately convex, black, very shining; head thickly and rugosely 
punctured, antenne brownish-yellow with blackish club; thorax with 
very diffise and scattered large punctures which are more numerous in 
smaller examples, the spaces between exceedingly finely punctured, 
almost smooth ; scutellum rather large, almost impunctate, or with only 
a few punctures ; elytra with rather fine crenate strie, black with the 
outer margins and apex more or less obscurely reddish-brown ; legs 
lighter or darker reddish-brown with the tarsi ferruginous. L. 3-5 mm. 
Male with the frontal tubercles more distinct than in female, and the 
clypeus furnished with a transverse raised line. 
In dung, vegetable refuse, &e.; very common in the London district, and through- 
out Kent and Surrey, and widely distributed along the South Coast of England ; 
rarer in the Midlands and further north; Northumberland and Durham district, 
Meldon, South Shields, &c., rare; not recorded trom Scotland; Ireland, near Belfast. 
A. nitidulus, F. Elongate, almost cylindrical, shining; head 
reddish with vertex dark, finely punctured, antennz reddish-testaceous ; 
thorax fuscous with sides more or less broadly red, finely and unevenly 
punctured ; scutellum moderate, punctured at base; elytra long, tes- 
taceous or reddish-testaceous, with the suture very narrowly brown, 
with rather fine crenate strie, the interstices being flat and exceedingly 
finely punctured, almost smooth ; legs reddish-brown or brownish-yellow. 
L. 4-5 mm. 
Male with the central frontal tubercle more distinct and with the 
thorax as broad as the elytra and very finely punctured, whereas in the 
female the thorax is narrower than the elytra and more strongly 
punctured. 
In dung ; local; London district, rather common, Darenth Wood, Asktead, Plum- 
stead, Mickleham; Loughton; Southend; Deal; Sandwich; Eastbourne; Wey- 
mouth; Devon; Swansea; Hunstanton; Harwich; Cleethorpes; Liverpool ; it 
usually occurs near the coast, and is not found in any of the midland counties, in 
the north of England, or in Scotland. 
A. sordidus, F. Oblong, moderately convex, shining; head 
reddish with vertex darker, antenne and palpi yellow ; thorax dark with 
side margins broadly, and anterior and posterior margins narrowly, 
reddish, exceedingly finely punctured, with diffuse large punctures at 
sides ; scutellum brown, punctured at base ; elytra long, with moderate 
finely crenate strie, of a dirty-testaceous colour with a spot at each 
