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impunctate ; extreme tip of abdomen and edges of its segments, legs, and 

 base of antenna?, red ; apex of latter dusky- red. (L. 3-4 1.) Dung, &c. 

 London district ; Devon : 4-6. 



3092 impressus Pz. F. xxxvi. f. 21. — Ste. M. v. 219. — Black; shining; 

 head and thorax very glossy ; elytra glabrous, shining, with 4 rows of 

 punctures, sides, suture, and tip red, or testaceous ; legs pitchy ; knees 

 brownish; antenna? pitchy-black. (L. 3§ 1. ) Decayed leaves, &c. : Lon- 

 don district ; Suffolk ; Devon : 4-8. 



3093 atripennis Ste. M. v. 436. — Pitchy-red ; shining ; head and elytra 

 deep black ; the latter finely punctured ; legs pale red ; antennae pitchy. 

 (L. 4 1.) Scotland: 6. 



3094 sericopterus Ste. M. v. 219. — Black ; rather glossy ; head and thorax 

 polished ; elytra chestnut-brown, clothed with long silken pubescence ; 

 abdomen with a bluish gloss, apex acute ; legs and antennas red-brown, 

 the latter palest and slender. (L. 3 1.) Dung: London district : 6. 



3095 rufitarsis Marsh, i. 512. — Ste. M. v. 220. — Black; head rather nar- 

 rower than the thorax, both polished ; elytra pubescent, testaceous, punc- 

 tured ; legs pitchy-black ; tarsi red ; antennas pitchy. (L. 3 1. ) Dung: 

 London district : 6. 



3096 humeralis Kirby. — Ste. M. v. 220. — Black ; highly polished ; head 

 orbiculate ; eyes largish ; elytra dull reddish, very much punctulated, 

 slightly pubescent ; abdomen with a purplish hue, the edges of the seg- 

 ments and the extreme tip reddish; legs and base of antennae red. (L. 

 Si.) Dung: London district ; Barham: 6. 



3097 f seminitidus Kirby. — Ste. M. v. 220. — Black, obscure; head rounded, 

 and with the thorax polished ; elytra obscure pitchy, punctulated, pubes- 

 cent ; legs pitchy-black ; antennas and palpi black, the latter somewhat 

 clavate. (L. 1|1.) Dung: Suffolk: 6. 



6. Thorax with a double row of 4 punctures each. 



3098 picatus Kirby. — Ste. M. v. 220. — Black ; head somewhat heart- 

 shaped, shining ; thorax polished, and with a fovea at the base ; elytra 

 pitchy, pubescent, much punctured ; legs pitchy-red, anterior coxas dusky. 

 (L. 3 1.) Dung: London district ; Suffolk; Devon: 6. 



3099 picipes Kirby. — Ste. M. v. 221. — Black, with a longish, but scanty 

 ashy pubescence ; head somewhat heart-shaped, glossy, and, with the 

 thorax, glabrous ; elytra pitchy, obscure, minutely punctulate ; legs 

 pitchy-red; anterior coxas dusky; basal joints of antennas pitchy. (L. 

 2^-3 1.) 



Var. St. hirtipennis Kirby. — Ste. M. v. 221. — Elytra clothed with a 

 longer and more rigid pubescence than the type ; legs dull red, segments 

 of the abdomen slightly reddish on the edge. Dung : London district ; 

 Suffolk: 6. 



3100 sericans Kirby Ste. M. v. 221. — Black; shining; pilose; head 



somewhat orbiculate ; thorax with a silken gloss ; elytra dull red, pilose, 

 punctulated ; abdomen ovate, the edges of the segments beneath red ; legs 

 dull reddish ; base of antennas rusty-piceous. (L. 2\ 1.) Dung: Lon- 

 don district ; Suffolk : 6. 



3101 fuscipennis Kirby. — Ste. M. v. 222. — Deep black, shining; rather 

 pilose ; head somewhat orbiculate, and, with the thorax, polished ; elytra 

 punctulate, chestnut-brown ; abdomen with a bluish tint ; legs chestnut ; 

 antennas black. (L. 3 1.) Dung: Suffolk; Devon: 6. 



3102 rufipes Ste. M. v. 222. — Pitchy-black; head and thorax polished; 

 elytra slightly pubescent, very much punctulated, obscure ; abdomen also 

 pubescent, edges of the segments obscurely pitchy ; legs tawny-red j tibias 



