38 LAMELLICORNIA. [ Psammobius. 
smooth ; legs short, ferruginous, with the posterior tarsi slender, and not 
very short, claws of the usual size. L. 23-3 mm. 
Under stones and on the wing ; extremely rare, and somewhat doubtful as British ; 
Stephens (Illustr. iii. 211) refers to it as “a rare species, at least towards the 
eastern parts of Britain; in the western it appears to be more abundant. ‘Near 
Bristol and Pentire Point, Cornwall,’ Dr. Leach:” I know of no recent capture. 
P. sulcicollis, IJ]. Obovate, convex, strongly sculptured, brownish- 
black, brown or reddish-brown, rather shining, antennz reddish-yellow 
or ferruginous ; head reddish on anterior margin, granulate in front and 
with oblique ridges behind ; thorax somewhat narrower than elytra with 
four deep transverse furrows, base and sides set with short clavate sete ; 
elytra with strong and deep striz, which are crenate or punctured at 
their base, but not very evidently so; legs brownish-red, tarsi short with 
small and feeble claws. L. 23-3 mm. 
Male with the metasternum slightly impressed in middle ; some 
specimens appear to be considerably more dilated behind middle than 
others, but I do not know whether this is a sexual difference. 
Sandy places on the coast, in and on the sand ; oceasionally under seaweed ; local 
and not common; Deal; Dover ; Westward Ho! North Devon; Burnham, Somerset ; 
Bristol ; Weston-super-Mare ; Swansea; Norfolk ; Scarborough; Crosby, near Liver- 
pool; Southport, Lancashire ; Scotland, extremely local, Tay district. 
Dr. Sharp (Scottish Nat. iv. 179) says of it, “‘ This is a maritime species, 
but occurs in a sandy place on the banks of the Tay above Perth.” 
Mr. W. Garneys has recorded it from Repton, near Burton-on-Trent, in 
hotbeds, but I think he must have made some mistake regarding it. 
P. porcicollis, Ili. Larger and broader than the preceding, which 
it closely resembles; it may easily be known by the much broader 
and more coarsely crenate striz of the elytra; the thorax is more ample, 
and there are scarcely any traces of the oblique ridges at the back of the 
head which are evident in P. suleicollis. LL. 3-33 mm. 
Sandy places, beneath the surface of the sand, under small stones, and also at the 
roots of stunted or low herbage (such as Ononis); very rare; a few specimens have 
been taken at Whitsand Bay, four miles from Devonport, by Mr. J. J. Walker; one 
specimen was known previously, which was found in Mr. Kirby’s collection mixed with 
P. sulcicollis, 
FEGIALIA, Latreille. 
This genus contains about a dozen species, of which three occur 
in Europe ; all of these are found in Britain; the other species have 
been described frora Northern Asia, North America, and Egypt; they 
are distinguished from all the other Aphodiina by having the mandibles 
visible beyond the clypeus. 
I. Thorax punctured or almost smooth; colour, as a rule, 
black, or dark pitchy-brown. 
i. Thorax very coarsely punctured; posterior legs not 
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