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Head, tliorax, antennae and under-side brown-red ; elytra 

 dark brown ; legs red-yellow. Head tolerably closely and 

 moderately strongly punctured ; tliorax rounded at tlie 

 sides in front, contracted behind more strongly but not so 

 soon as in H. 'puncticollis, rather closely and strongly punc- 

 tured ; interstices of elytra punctured more strongly and 

 not quite so* closely as in H. puncticollis. L. 4 1. Not 

 common. H. rtcpicola, Sturm. 



b b. Posterior angles of thorax right angles ; 

 elytra oblong-ovate. 



Brown-l)lack above, head and thorax sometimes reddish ; 

 under-side and antennae brown-red; legs yellow-red. Head 

 ratlier strongly but not very closely punctured ; thorax 

 somewhat rounded at the sides in front, moderately con- 

 tracted behind, strongly but not closely punctured ; inter- 

 stices of elytra very closely and finely punctured. L.3 — 3|- 1. 

 Common. H. puncticollis, Payk. 



J? _B. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long. 



Blackish above, head and thorax sometimes lighter; 

 ])itch-brown beneath; antennae and legs yellowish-red. 

 Head scantily and tolerably finely punctured ; thorax 

 strongly rounded at the sides in front, contracted behind, 

 posterior angles right angles, punctuation rather fine ; 

 interstices of elytra finely and not quite so closely punc- 

 tured as in H. puncticollis. L. 3| 1. Common. 



H. rufiharhis, Fab. {rufilahris, Sharp's Cat.) 



2, Sides of thorax only slightly rounded in front. 



Brown-black above, head and thorax often reddish ; red- 

 brown beneath ; mouth, antennae and legs yellowish-red. 

 Head and thorax coarsely punctured ; interstices of elytra 

 very closely and finely punctured, with a row of larger 

 impressions in the third, fifth, and seventh. L. 2-| — 3 1. 

 Ptare. H. parallelus, Dej. 



-B. Head impunctate; thorax not punctured except at 

 margins or at base ; interstices of elytra punctured and 

 hairy. 



Pitch-black, antennae and legs red. Thorax punctured 

 at base very closely, the other margins indistinctly, posterior 

 angles sharp right angles ; elytra thickly covered with 

 golden-yellow hairs. L. 6 — 7 1. Common. 



H. ruficornis, Fab, 



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