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4. T. scitula Er. 



(Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Er. I, 308; 'Jen. Spec. Staph. 72; Kraatz Ins. T. 

 II, 153; Wluls. et Ray Brevip. 1875, 383; Oanglb. Kaf. M. II, 246). 



Closely allied to the two preceding species, but v.ith shorter anten- 

 nae and anteriorly feebly narrowing abdomen is the intermediate to the 

 two following species. 



Black, very finely and rather densely gray-haired, rather glistening; 

 the forebody often with feeble bluish lustre; the antennae i-^ddish -brown 

 with brownish-yellow base; lege pitch-black or pitch-brown with reddish- 

 yellow knees and tarsi. 



The body is a little more convex than in the two preceding species; 

 forebody particularly finely and densely, the abdomen a little less dense- 

 ly punctated; the head a little narrower than pronotum, somewhat con- 

 stricted behind, porrect, at middle sometimes very feebly grooved; an- 

 tennae short, scarcely longer than head and pronotum together, distinctly 

 thickened distally, their third Joint shorter than the second, the four 

 next-last feebly, yet distinctly transverse, distal joint short, tip ob- 

 tuse. Pronotum a little narrower than elytra, fully as long as broad, very 

 feebly narrowing posteriorly and anteriorly with slightly rounded sides, 

 conves, and posteriorly before scutellum most often with a small fovee; 

 elytra hardly longer than pronotum, evenly broad; base of abdomen notice- 

 ably narrowing in anterior direction, its first three free dorsal Joints 

 strongly transverse-grooved depressed at base. L. 3 mm. 



In the "^ the next-last ventral Joint of abdomen somewhat elongate and 

 rounded off at tip; the head at middle feebly foveate or grooved. 



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