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single, more or less obsolete, tubercle on the vertex, and sometimes an elevated 

 line on each side : thorax convex, very thickly and finely punctate throughout: 

 elytra short, considerably depressed, livid-griseous, with the suture rather 

 dusky, finely punctate-striated, the interstices delicately punctulated. 

 Elytra sometimes fuscescent, with the apex pale. 



Not uncommon in the metropolitan district, particularly in the 

 spring. " Common, particularly in cow-dung* (near Swansea), 

 nearly all the year."— L. W. Dillzvyn, Esq. " Bottisham.' , — Rev. 



L. Jenyns. " Near Newcastle." — W. C. Hezvitscm, Esq. 



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B. Scutellum small, short. 



a. With the clypeus tuberculated, generally emarginated. 



1. With the body convex. 



X Sp. 5. Scrutator. Ater, clypeo trituherculato, thoracis margine, elytris ab- 



domineque rufis. (Long. corp. 4 — 5 lin.) 

 Ap. Scrutator. Fabricius.—Steph. Catal. 108. No. 1119. 



Black, shining : clypeus rounded, with three tubercles : thorax punctate, with 

 the margins broadly rufous : elytra striated, rufous, with an elevated point at 

 the base and apex : abdomen entirely rufous : legs black. 



A specimen of this insect is said to have been taken near 

 Leeds, by the late Mr. Atkinson — others were in the collection 

 of Mr. MacLeay, according to Marsham. 



Sp. 6. fimetarius. Niger, nitidus, ahdomine concolore, tho?-acis anguhs anticis 

 elytrisque tot is rubris, clypeo trituherculato. (Long. corp. 2^ — 3^ lin.) 



Sc. fimetarius. Linne. — Don. xii. pi. 404. f. 1.— Aph. fimetarius. Steph. Catal. 

 108. No. 1120. 



Shining black; clypeus obscurely emarginate in front, with a distinct short 

 elevated line on the vertex and three tubercles behind: thorax sparingly 

 punctate, with the anterior angle on both sides testaceous or red ; and in the 

 male the anterior margin with an excavation in the middle: elytra bright 

 rufous, immaculate, punctate-striate, the interstices smooth : abdomen and 

 legs black • tarsi rufous. 



The elytra are sometimes slightly fuscescent .-—known from the following by its 

 black abdomen. 



Very abundant in the spring, and early summer months, not 

 only throughout the metropolitan district, but I believe in other 

 parts. " Bottisham." — Rev. L. Jenyns. " Common about Car- 

 lisle."— T. C. Hey sham, Esq. « York and Newcastle."—^. C. 

 HexoitsoJi, Esq. " Epping." — Mr. Doubkdity. " Very common 

 (near Swansea)." — L. W. D'dlicyn, Esq. 



