(Pa^e 233) 



Closely allied to leucopus, but a little smaller and more slender, 

 identified by evenly broad abdomen, and by the color. 



Blaclc, or pitch-black, finely gray-haired, rather ^-listening; fore- 

 body most often with distinct metallic lustre; the elytra sometimes bro*- 

 ish; antennae brown or reddish-brown; legs pitch-brov.n with lighter tibi- 

 ae and yellow tarsi. 



Dorsal side of body entirely with dense and particularly fine punc- 

 tation; the head (Fig. 87) hardly as broad as pronotura , porrect and some- 

 what constricted behind, in the 5^ at middle most often discinctly grooved; 

 antennae rather long and slender, very feebly thickened distally, their 

 second and third joints of same length, the following are all longer than 

 broad or the next-last (in^.) as broad as long. Pronotum narrower than 

 elytra, as long as broad, feebly narrowing posteriorly, with anteriorly 

 slightly rounded sides, slightly convex, often with feeble medial groove; 

 elytra //? longer than pronotum; abdomen about of even breadth, or sometimes 

 very feebly narrowed at base; its first three free dorsal Joints deeply 

 transverse-grooved depressed at base. L. 3.5 rmn. 



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In the ^ the sixth ventral joint of abdomen somewhat elongate and at 

 tip rounded off; in the 5 its posterior margin is rather deeply incised. 



Distributed in Middle Europe and England, but not found in Sweden; 

 in Denmark very rare and local; in clay pits, on sandy river brinks and 

 at ponds (Hobro, Jrejsdalen; Hjortholm and other places in ■=jaelland). 



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