478 COLEOPTEROUS INSECTS FOUND IN 
Gen. Agathidium. 
A. rufipes, Rev. W. Little's MSS. 
Globosum, nigrum, nitidum, subtilissime punctulatum, 
thoracis lateribus late, antennis pedibusque rufis. 
(Long. Corp. If lin.) 
Globose, shining black, punctulate throughout ; thorax 
convex, its lateral and anterior margins much dilated, and 
broadly rufous, glossy, very finely punctulated, the disk 
black ; elytra distinctly punctured, with an anteriorly ob- 
solete sutural stria on each ; body beneath piceous ; legs 
rufous, tarsi pale ferruginous ; palpi and antennae ferrugin- 
ous^ with the club of the latter dusky, excepting the tip of 
the apical joint. 
Closely allied to A. ruficolle and A. globus, but suffi- 
ciently distinguished from them by the black disk of the 
thorax, and by other characters. 
This new species was found last summer, near Restalrig, 
by Mr George Little. 
A. atrum, Steph. 
Under stones and among moss, not frequent. 
A. nanum, Steph. 
Edinburgh. Dr Leach. Steph. Illus. 
Sub.'Sect. NECROPHAGA. 
Fam. SCAPHIDIDiE. 
Gen. Ptomaphagus. 
P. truncatus, Illig. Choi, v'lllosa, Spence *. Mord. silphol- 
des. Marsh. 
Frequent on dead animals, decaying vegetables, &c. 
* There is an excellent monograph of this, and the two following 
genera, in the eleventh volume of the Transactions of the Linnean 
Society, by Mr Spence, the coadjutor of Mr Kirby. 
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