.] LAMELLICORNIA. 23 



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. 

 4-6^ mm. 



Male with the intermediate frontal tubercle more distinct. 



In dung; local; London district, not common, Battersea, Plumstead, Greenwich, 

 Lough ton, Belvedere, West Ham; Brighton; Devon; Swansea; Cleethorpes; 

 Liverpool ; Blackpool; Northumberland and Durham district; Scotland, rare, "not 

 common near Kdiuburgh; Fife," Murray's Cat.; the species appears to be chiefly con- 

 fined to the coast. 



A. rufescena, F. (rufus, 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- 

 tintjuished 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 tibiae, moreover, are furnished with 

 five or six loug cilia in the male, on their inner side. L. 4-5 mm. 



In dune; local ; Mickleham, Greenwich, Whitstable, Aldington, Belvedere, Ton- 

 bridge; Pegwell Bay; Hythe; Hastings; Dover; Bath ; Burnham, Somerset ; Men- 

 dip Hills; Swansea; Tewkesbury; Birmingham district ; Hunts; E--ex; Hunstanlon ; 

 Cleethorpes ; York; Scarborough; Liverpool ; Northumberland and Durham district ; 

 Scotland, common in the south, Sol way, Tweed, and Forth districts ; Ireland, 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 a-id 

 occasionally almost black ; antennae 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. 

 4-5j mm. 



Male with the central frontal tubercle raised, and the metasternum 

 impressed in middle ; the thorax also is broader and less closely 

 punctured on disc than in female. 



In dung, especially sheep's dung; a northern an 1 mountain species, and rare in 

 England and Wales except in the extreme north ; Llangolleu ; Snowdon ; Tintwistle 

 and Greenfield, Yorkshire; Teesdale ; Northumberland and Durham district; Scot- 

 land, Highland*, common in sheep's dung on moors and hill-sides, Tweed, Solway, 

 Forth, Clydf, Tay, Dee, Moray, and probably all the other districts ; Ireland, New. 

 ciutle, co. Down (Champion). 



A. fcetldus, F. (putridii*, Herbst., nfc Stnrm). Much smaller 



