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broader and more diffusely punetured on disc, and the metasternum 
impressed, 
In sheep’s or deer’s dung in woods; rare; Scotland, Tay and Dee districts (Brae- 
mar, Aviemore, &c.). Erichson records it as not rare in the Thiiringer Walde in 
deer’s dung. 
A. plagiatus, lL. Elongate, narrow, convex, subcylindrical, 
shining black with a very slight «neous reflection; head finely and 
more or less thickly punctured, with the frontal tubercles almost 
absent ; the central one, however, is plainly traceable ; antenne brown 
with blackish club; thorax with sides almost straight, very finely 
punctured, with large punctures intermingled ; these are diffuse on disc, 
but much thicker at sides; scutellum punctured at base; elytra either 
entirely black, or with a large oblique red patch on disc of each, with 
fine crenate strie, interstices large and flat scarcely visibly punctured ; 
legs variable, either black with tarsi ferruginous, or reddish-brown with 
blackish femora, or entirely reddish-brown. L. 23-3 mm. 
Male with the metasternum slightly impressed in middle and 
pubescent. 
Damp places; under stones, in flood refuse, &c.; rarely in dung; local, but not 
uncommon where it occurs; Deal; Sheerness; Dover; Hastings; Barmouth ; 
Wisbeach ; Peterborough ; Norwich; Liverpool: the form with immaculate elytra 
appears to be the commonest ; this was introduced by Mr. Crotch (Proc. Ent. Soe. 
London, Nov. 19, 1866) as A. niger, Gyll.; that species, however, does not appear to 
have been hitherto found in Britain ; it is closely allied to A. plagiatus, but is rather 
larger, and has no eneous reflection (this, however, is often scarcely visible in A. 
plagiatus); the posterior tarsi, moreover, have the exterior spur shorter, and the 
metasternum is more finely and sparingly punctured, and not pubescent in the male. 
A. lividus, O]. Oblong, convex, shining, of a livid testaceous 
colour, with the base of the head, the disc of thorax, and the suture of 
elytra, together with a more or less broad and cloudy band on each of 
the latter, dark; as a rule the dark band covers the greater part of the 
elytra, leaving the apex, margin, and a line before suture light; head 
finely punctured, rugose in front, antenne and palpi testaceous ; 
thorax extremely finely punctured with fine and scattered larger punc- 
tures which are more numerous at sides; elytra with rather fine but 
distinctly crenate striz, interstices exceedingly finely punctured ; legs 
short and stout, reddish-brown with femora yellow. L. 3}—-44 mm. 
Male with central frontal tubercle larger, and the metasternum 
impressed in the middle. 
In dung, manure heaps, &e, ; very local; London district, not uncommon, Norwood, 
Lee, Darenth Wood, Sittingbourne, Greenwich, Forest Hill; Kingsgate, near 
Margate, in abundance (T. W.od;; Holy Island; Northumberland district, rare, 
Heaton and Long Benton. 
A. porcus, F. Oblong, rather depressed, black, dull, with the 
elytra of a dark red colour; head comparatively small, very thickly 
punctured, antenne yellow with greyish club, palpi reddish-yellow ; 
