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gine antico aequaliter reflexo, vix sinuato, disco punc- 

 tato-ruguloso , in niare trituberculato, in femina unitu- 

 berculato , ad latera foveolato ; thorax aeque longus ac 

 latus, modice convexus, antice angustior, angulis obtu- 

 sis, subtilissime marginatus, punctatus, margine antico 

 tenuissime rufo-piceo; elytra rufo- picea, nitida, thorace 

 paulo latiora, convexa, punctato-striata, punctis (in striis) 

 transversis, striis utrinque decem, interstitiis convexis, 

 glabris, tantum pone strias disperse subtilissime punctu- 

 latis; antennae pedesque nigro-picei. 



Differt noMer ab A. piceo. Fabr. capitis angulis magis rotundatis, 

 thorace concolori, nigro, interstitiis slriarum in elytris glabris (quuiu 

 in A. piceo seri.itiin punclulata sint interstitia). 



Spec: W. Asphaltinus. Kolenati. 



dler, nitidus, punctatus, elytris subtiliter punctata 

 striatis, interstitiis punctulatis, sparse villosis. 



Long: 0,0055; lat: 0,003. 

 Habitat in stercore bovino in monte Beschtau prope 

 Pjatjgorsk, Ciscaucasiae. 



Forma praecedentis. Capitis clypeus fere aeque lon- 

 gus ac latus, distincte hexagonus, angulis obtusiusculis, 

 emarginatus, margine antico paulo flexo, vix sinuato, 

 disco punctata, obsoleto trituberculato, ante tuberculum 

 medium torulo arcuato; thorax paulo latior ac longus, 

 antice vix angustior, convexus, crebre punctatus, margi- 

 natus, angulis subrectis; elytra thorace paulo latiora, 

 axillis prominentibus, atra, nitida, subpubescentia, subti- 

 liter punctato-striata, punctis in striis minimis a se re- 

 iiiotis, interstitiis planis, punctulatis; antennae pedesque 

 nigro-picei, tarsis rufo-piceis. 



Differl ab A. terrestri. Fabricii colore atro, thorace minus con- 

 ve\u. elytroruin striis suhtilioribus punclisque in illis rarioribus , in- 



