APHODIIUiE. — APHODIUS. 193 



punctatO'Striatis pallidis, maculis septem nigris distinctis. (Long. corp. 

 2± lin.) 

 Sc. conspurcatus. Linne. — Ap. conspurcatus. Steph. Catal. 109. No. 1129. 



Oblong, black, glossy : clypeus entire, with three tubercles, and an oblong fer- 

 ruginous spot before the eyes : thorax convex, thickly punctate, the sides 

 broadly pale, with an obsolete fuscous spot : elytra pale, a little convex, faintly 

 punctate-striate, with the interstices flat, smooth, shining; each elytron 

 with seven distinct oblong-quadrate black spots, of which two are between the 

 second and third striae from the suture, beyond the middle, one behind the 

 other ; a third anterior, between the third and fourth striae ; the fourth and 

 fifth between the fourth and fifth striae, the former before and the latter behind 

 the middle; the sixth obliquely curved on the shoulder; and the seventh in 

 the middle of the disc, elongate : abdomen and legs pale testaceous. 



Differs from the following, which it most resembles, in having the elytra more 

 depressed and less deeply striated, the suture and striae not dusky, and the 

 spots differently placed. 



Rare ; it has been taken within the metropolitan district, but it 

 appears more frequent in the west of England. " In horse-dung 

 (near Swansea), not common. 1 ' — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. 



Sp. 16. stiticus. Niger, nitidus, clypeo himaculato, thoracis lateribus testaceis, 



elytris profundi punctato-striatis nigra maculatis. (Long. corp. 2^ lin.) 

 Sc. stiticus. Panzer.— Ap. stiticus. Steph. Catal. 109. No. 1130. 



Shining-black: clypeus entire, with three obsolete tubercles, and before the 

 eyes a ferruginous spot on each side: thorax thickly punctured, the disc 

 glossy black ; with the sides broadly, and the anterior and posterior edges 

 narrowly, margined with testaceous, the former with a fuscous dot in the 

 middle : elytra griseous- testaceous, rather deeply punctate-striate, the inter- 

 stices elevated, glossy, and smooth ; the suture and the striae fuscescent ; in 

 the middle of the base an elongate black spot, towards the suture and middle 

 of the elytra two other small united ones, joined to the preceding by the 

 fuscous striae ; within the apex three other small ones, the middle one being 

 anterior ; and beneath the shoulder an oblique stria : body fuscous beneath ; 

 legs pale. 



The spots on the elytra are more or less confluent in different examples, and 

 vary in size :— the insect chiefly differs from the last described by the number 

 and confluence of the spots, with the fuscous and deeply impressed striae, 

 and more convex form. 



Not uncommon near London : I have taken it during the summer 

 at Ripley, and near Hertford. 



Sp. 1 7. inquinatus. Niger, nitidus, thoracis angulis anticis macula riijVi, elytris 

 griseis maculis nigris, interioribus tricomposilis. (Long. Corp. 2—2^ lin.) 



