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shoulder and a second behind middle dark, one or both of these being 
sometimes absent; apex dull, pubescent; the suture also is narrowly 
dark ; legs reddish-yellow with the femora, in part at least, lighter. L. 
3-63 mm. 
Male with the intermediate frontal tubercle more distinct. 
In dung; local; London district, not common, Battersea, Plumstead, Greenwich, 
Loughton, Belvedere, West Ham; Brighton; Devon; Swansea; Cleethorpes ; 
Liverpool ; Blackpool; Northumberland and Durham district ; Scotland, rare, “not 
common near Edinburgh; Fite,’? Murray’s Cat.; the species appears to be chiefly con- 
fined to the coast. 
A. rufescens, F. (rvfus, Moll.). Somewhat smaller than the 
preceding, and more convex, shining; colour variable, the elytra being 
of a reddish-testaceous colour with or without a dark cloudy band at 
sides, or entirely pitchy red, or dark pitchy brown, so that the whole 
insect appears of a dark pitchy colour; the clypeus is reddish and the 
vertex of head dark, and the thorax dark with more or less broadly red 
margins ; the reddish portions in dark specimens are sometimes very 
obscure: the species very closely resembles A. sordidus, but is dis- 
tinguished by its more convex form, and by the disc of the thorax being 
evidently more closely punctured, and by having the apex of the elytra 
shining and glabrous ; the intermediate tibia. moreover, are furnished with 
five or six long cilia in the male, on their inner side. L, 4-54 mm. 
In dung; local; Mickleham, Greenwich, Whitstable, Addington, Belvedere, Ton- 
bridge; Pegwell Bay; Hythe; Hastings; Dover; Bath ; Burnham, Somerset ; Men- 
dip Hills; Swansea ; Tewkesbury; Birmingbam district ; Hunts; Essex; Hunstanton ; 
Cleethorpes ; York ; Scarborough; Liverpool ; Northumberland and Durham district ; 
Scotland, common in the south, Solway, Tweed, and Forth districts ; Lreland, Armagh ; 
the species appears to occur more often near the coast than inland. 
A. lapponum, Gyll. Oblong, rather broad, black, shining, with the 
elytra of a lighter or darker reddish colour, sometimes pitchy and 
oceasionally almost black; antenne reddish with club darker, palpi 
pitchy ; thorax transverse, very finely and closely punctured with the 
anterior angles pitchy ; elytra with rather feeble crenate striae, the 
interstices being broad, very slightly convex near suture, and sparingly 
and extremely finely punctured; legs pitchy, with tarsi lighter. L. 
4-51 mm. 
Male with the central frontal tubercle raised, and the metasternum 
impressed in middle; the thorax also is broader and less closely 
punctured on dise than in female. 
In dung, especially sheep’s dung; a northern anl mountain species, and rare in 
England and Wales except in the extreme north ; Llangollen ; Snowdon; Tintwistle 
aud Greenfield, Yorkshire; Teesdale; Northumberland and Durham district ; Scot- 
land, Highlands, common in sheep’s dung on moors and hill-sides, Tweed, Solway, 
Forth, Clyde, Tay, Dee, Moray, and probably all the other districts; Ireland, New- 
castle, co. Down (Champion). 
A. foetidus, F. (putridus, Herbst., nec Sturm). Much smaller 
