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much so as in the two first species, rather distinctly punctured, with a 
smooth line in middle behind; antenne moderately long and slender, 
red ; thorax in front at least as broad as head, much narrowed behind, 
distinctly and not very closely punctured ; elytra oval, broadest about 
middle, comparatively strongly punctured, with the shoulders almost 
rounded; femora dark, tibiee and tarsi reddish-testaceous. L. 3-34 mm. 
Male with the posterior tibie very strongly and spathulately dilated 
externally at apex. 
Salt marshes; in refuse, &c.; often beneath decaying seaweed ; locally common; 
Gravesend, Southend, Sheerness, Whitstable; Margate; Hastings; Sandown; 
Southampton ; Wivenhoe. 
A. angustatus, Curt. Pitchy or dark brown, with yellowish 
pubescence which is very distinct and rather coarse ; head comparatively 
long, rounded at base, somewhat produced before eyes, rather strongly 
punctured, with a smooth, more or less interrupted, central line; an- 
tennze moderately long, red; base of head and thorax often red or 
reddish, dise of latter dark; the colour, however, is variable ; thorax 
obovate, about as wide in front as head, and thence gradually and 
slightly narrowed behind, distinctly punctured ; elytra subparallel, closely 
and rather strongly punctured ; legs red, femora scarcely darker; the 
entirely red legs and the obovate shape of the thorax will distinguish 
this species from all our others except A. scoticus, from which it may 
be known by the narrower and more parallel form and evidently longer 
thorax ; it is very distinct and easily separated from our other members 
of the genus, but I am not at all sure that it is not synonymous with 
one of the many allied European species. L. 2-2$ mm. 
Salt marshes, and on the beach under seaweed; rare; Gravesend; Southend; 
Wrabness (Essex) ; Hastings; Portsmouth district; Ventnor, Isle of Wight (rare on 
the beach); Portland; Bristol. 
A. scoticus, Rye. Leaden black, dull, thickly clothed with rather 
shining greyish pubescence, antenne and legs lurid-testaceous or almost 
entirely pitchy ; head broad, with the base truneate, strongly and 
closely and somewhat rugosely punctured, with an impunctate central 
line; thorax short and broad, almost transverse and subglobose, closely 
punctured, but not so strongly as head; elytra much broader than 
thorax, truncate at base, comparatively short and broad, with close, rather 
strong, and in some places almost confluent punctuation; the species is 
closely allied to A. angustatus, but may be easily known by its broader 
and stouter build, the shorter thorax, and the generally darker colour 
of the upper surface, legs and antenne ; the colour appears to be vari- 
able, as my single specimen has the legs and antenne entirely red, and 
the base of the elytra towards shoulders with a tendency to become 
obscurely reddish. L. 23-3 mm, 
Very local; Scotland, Forth, Clyde, and Dee districts; Paisley (Morris Young) ; 
