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



very rare in this country on semi -damp on sandy or clayey banks (Hvorup, 



Blokhus and Flauenskjold in Vendsyss*!, in irejsdalen together with leu- 



copus , umbratica and constricta ) . 



3. Subgenus Tachyusa s. str. 



5. T. Goarctata Er. 



(Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 308; Can. Spec. Staph. 71; Kraatz Ins. T>. 

 II. 15?; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 4; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1875, 397; 

 3anglb. Kaf. M. II, 247). 



A little shorter and hardly as fine and slender as the following spe- 

 cies, but like this distinguished by the forwardly toward the base strong- 

 ly narrowing shape of abdomen and its peculiarly long first three free 

 dorsal joints. 



Black, very finely gray-haired, rather glistening; forebody sometimes 

 with feeble bluish reflection; antennae reddish-brown with a little light- 

 er base; the lags pitch-brown or reddish-brown with reddish-yellov, tarsi. 



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Forebody with particularly fine and very dense, abdomen v.ith much less 

 dense punctation; the head a little narrower than pronotum, porrect, feebly 

 constricted behind; antennae somewhat longer than head and pronotum to- 

 gether, very feebly thickened distally, their third joint shorter then 

 the second, the middle ones longer than broad, the next-last either as 

 long as broad (^) or feebly transverse (^), distal joint obtuse at tip. 

 Pronotum a little narrower than elytra, scarcely narrowing posteriorly, 

 with anteriorly very feebly rounded sides, as long as broad, convex, and 



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