Collected by sifting wrack deposits along the rocky coast at the annual all-taxa BioBlitz hosted by the Seacoast Science Center. I could have had live ones to photograph but I killed them just as our beetle expert was putting away his scope and now must shoot and post to get IDs of these dead specimens.

These beetles were in fairly old, rotting seaweed heaps. I imagined them swimming through the yucky muck just like hydrophilids in a cowpie.

If you sense something odd about this image, it likely owes to my having superimposed the front portion of each beetle from another photo taken from a somewhat different angle. I did so in order to present a better focused view.