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ii. Thorax very finely punctured, almost smooth ; posterior 
leps- thickened’. 3 6) wba Oe ae a ee OAL ARENARTAS 2 
II. Thorax strongly rugose ; colour always rufous ; posterior 
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ZB. sabuleti, Payk. Oblong, subparallel, black or pitchy black or 
brownish, not very shining, upper surface convex but with dise of elytra 
subdepressed ; head punctured behind, rugose or slightly granulate in 
front, antenne and palpi red, maxillary palpi with the last joint slender 
and acuminate; thorax about as broad as elytra, scarcely narrowed in 
front, very coarsely punctured, with the base sinuate on each side; 
elytra with very strong crenate striz ; legs ferruginous, or pitchy with 
tarsi lighter, posterior tibize narrow and only a little widened at apex, 
posterior tarsi rather long. L. 3-45 mm. 
On the sandy banks of rivers and streams both near the coast and inland; local; 
it has not occurred, apparently, in the London district or the south of England ; 
Bristol; Swansea; banks of Usk; Bewdley ; Matlock; banks of Bollin, Cheshire ; 
banks of Irwell and Mersey; Scarborough; New Brighton; Northumberland and 
Durham district ; Scotland, local, Solway, Forth, Tay, Dee, and Moray districts. 
ZZ. arenaria, |. (globosa, Kug.). Strongly ovate, very convex, 
somewhat globose, short and broad, of a shining black er reddish-brown 
colour, with long yellowish or brownish hairs at sides; head convex, 
thickly granulate in front, antennz yellowish-red; thorax short, trans- 
verse, extremely finely and almost invisibly punctured, smooth; elytra 
strongly convex and much dilated behind, with fine and rather feeble 
striz, which are very obsoletely punctured, interstices broad and smooth; 
legs ferruginous, posterior tarsi very short, tibiz dilated. L. 4-45 mm. 
Sandy coasts; somewhat local in places, but apparently generally distributed around 
the coasts of the whole kingdom, and, as a rule, one of the commonest of the sand-hill 
beetles; it is extremely sluggish in its movements; immature specimens are often 
quite rufous, and in some collections have been made to do duty for 2. rufa. 
HE. rufa, F. Oblong, rather elongate, subparallel and almost 
subcylindrical, elytra somewhat depressed on disc, colour entirely rufous 
or light ferruginous; head rugose and finely and very thickly granulate, 
antenne and palpi yellowish-red, last joint of maxillary paipi somewhat 
securiform; thorax about as broad as elytra, somewhat narrowed in front, 
coarsely wrinkled, and finely punctured between the wrinkles; elytra 
strongly striate, the striz being feebly crenate or punctate at their base; 
legs rufous, intermediate and posterior tibie darker at apex, and much 
dilated, tarsi short. L. 33-45 mm. 
_On sandy coasts; very local; first taken by Mr, F. Archer in June 1862 at New 
Brighton, and for a long time considered one of our rarest British beetles; it has, 
however, been recently taken in some numbers by Dr. Ellis, Mr. Wilding, and others 
at Wallasey (Cheshire), Liverpool, and New Brighton, and probably occurs in other 
localities in the Liverpool and Lancashire district. 
The late Mr. Garneys had a specimen in his collection which, as far as 
I remember, he told me he captured at Barmouth, North Wales. 
