APHODIID.E. — APHODIUS. 19f) 



apex: elytra very convex, rather faintly punctate-striate, black with a spot on 

 the shoulders, and the apex rufescent, or entirely of a rufo-piceous hue : 

 body beneath black, with the apex piceous : legs rufo-ferruginous. 

 The anterior rufous angles of the thorax, impunctate clypeus, and delicately 

 punctate-striate elytra, with rufo-piceous tips, sufficiently characterize this 

 species. 



Found occasionally within the metropolitan district : also in 

 Cumberland. 



2. With the body somewhat depressed. 



Sp. 32. porcus. Niger obscurus, capite trituberculato, elrjtris rufo-brunneis, 



duplicato-striatis. (Long. corp. 9.\ — 2^ lin.) 

 Ap. porcus. Fabricius. — Steph. Catal. 111. No. 1146. 



Obscure black: clypeus with three tubercles, the central one longest: thorax 

 black, very thickly punctulated, the anterior margin with a slender pale 

 border : elytra reddish-brown, punctate-striated, the striae composed as it were 

 of closely approximating pairs, the interstices finely but thickly punctate, with 

 a sericeous hue : abdomen a little glossy beneath, and black : legs piceous, with 

 black femora. 



The depressed form of this species, with its red-brown duplicate-striated elytra, 

 at once separate it from the others of this genus. 



Not very common ; it has been taken near London, but is more 

 usually found in maritime districts. " On Crwmlyn Burrows, 

 not uncommon." — L. W. Dillwyn, Esq. " Ramsgate." — Mr. J. 

 Gretton. 



Sp. 33. ruficrus. Niger, capite obsolete trituberculato, elytris pedibusque rufis, 



femoribus piceis. (Long. corp. 2 lin.) 

 Sc. ruficrus. Marsham. — A p. ruficrus. Steph. Catal. 111. No. 1147. 



Black: clypeus with three obsolete tubercles: thorax finely punctured : elytra 



rufous, punctate-striated, the interstices punctulated: legs rufous, with piceous 



femora. 

 Less than the foregoing, of which it may be only a variety: its chief differences 



consisting in its smaller size, brighter colours, and obsoletely tuberculated 



clypeus. 



Taken in September near Brightwell, by Woodbridge in Suf- 

 folk, by Rev. W. Kirby. " On Sketty Burrows (near Swansea), 

 not uncommon.'" — L. IV. Dilkvyn, Esq. 



Sp. 34. fulvicrus. Niger, opacus, clypeo obsolete trituberculato, elijtris nigro- 



p/'ceus punctato-striatis, pedibus nigris, tarsis fulvis. (Long. corp. L 2 lin.) 

 Ap. fulvicrus mihi.— Steph. Catal. 111. A r o. 1148. 



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