APHODIID.E. APHODIUS. 191 



tlie lateral margins broadly dull ferruginous, with an obscure fuscous spot, the 

 disc throughout thickly and finely punctate : elytra punctate-striate, generally 

 immaculate, but sometimes with a larger or smaller oblique fuscous patch, or 

 with the entire disc fuscous: body beneath and legs immaculate rufo-fer- 

 ruginous ; breast sometimes piceous. 

 More elongate than either of the preceding insects, from all of which it may be 

 known by its immaculate red legs. 



Common in liorse-dung throughout the metropolitan district : 

 also found in Norfolk. " Occasionally found on the sand hills 

 (near Swansea), about midsummer." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Bot- 

 tisham." — Rev. L. Jenyns. 



Sp. 10. castaneus. Rufo-castaneus, elytris antennis pedibusque testaceis, capite 



subtrituberculato. (Long. corp. 2£ lin.) 

 Sc. castaneus. Marsham. — Ap. castaneus. Steph. Catal. 109. No. 1124. 



Reddish-chestnut, shining : clypeus with three obsolete tubercles : thorax some- 

 what castaneous, the disc darker, and throughout sprinkled with minute 

 punctures : elytra testaceous, punctate-striate : legs pale testaceous. 



Probably an immature state of the foregoing ; the puncta on the thorax seem 

 however differently disposed. 



I possess one specimen captured by myself near London, and a 

 pair from the Marshamian cabinet. 



Sp. 1 1 . ochraceus. Oblongus, niger, parum convexus, clypeo trituberculato, tho- 

 race punctatissimo, elytris ochraceis, pedibus piceis. (Long. corp. 3 lin.) 



Ap. ochraceus mihi. Steph. Catal. 109. No. 1125. 



Oblong-black : clypeus angulated, thickly punctate, with three small tubercles 

 behind : thorax thickly and deeply punctate throughout, with the anterior 

 angles testaceous : elytra rather long, ochraceous, slightly clouded with dusky, 

 punctate-striated : abdomen dusky-testaceous : legs pitchy-black : tarsi ru- 

 fous ; antennae dusky-ferruginous. 



More convex than the two last, from which it also differs by having the an- 

 terior angles alone of the thorax pale, and the disc thickly punctate. 



My example of this insect, which greatly resembles A. Lapponum 

 of Gyllenhal, was taken near London. 



Sp. 12. sordidus. Livido-testaceus, parum convexus, thoracis disco nigro paixi 



punctulato, corpore pedibusque nigro variis. (Long. corp. 2^ — 3f lin.) 

 Sc. sordidus. Fabricius.—Ap. sordidus. Steph. Catal. 109. No. 1 126. 



Rather depressed, livid-testaceous : clypeus entire, ferruginous ; the disc and 

 crown black, the latter with three tubercles: thorax broad, convex, very 

 glossy, the disc smooth, or with a few scattered punctures; the margins pale, 

 the lateral ones broadly so, with a black dot in the middle : elytra broad, 



