(Pase ai?5) 

 Forebody very finely, but not very densely punctated; abdomen anteri- 

 orly almost smooth, posteriorly rather densely punctated. The head (Fig. 38) 

 is as broad as pronotum, posteriorly roundly narrowing and distinctly 

 constricted; antennae rather short, distinctly thickened distally, their 

 third joint a little shorter than the second, the middle ones longer than 

 broad, the three next-last, especially in the ^ , feebly transverse, dis- 

 tal joint somewhat thickened, obtuse tip. Pronotum is narrower than el- 

 ytra, a little longer than broad, scarcely narrowing posteriorly, v.ith 

 anteriorly rounded off sides and corners, convex, sometimes with a feeble 

 small fovea posteriorly before scutellum; elytra \% times as long as pro- 

 notum, roundly narrowing posteriorly, convex, their mutual posterior mar- 



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 gin broadly incurved and the outer corners thereby becoming acute; abdom- 

 en peculiarly strongly narrowing anteriorly toward base, its first three 

 free dorsal joints strongly depressed at base, strongly and increasingly 

 elongate, so that the third becomes as long as or longer than the fourth 

 and fifth together. L. 5 mm. 



In the O the sixth ventral joint of abdomen somewhat elongate and 

 rounded off at tip; in the q feebly emarginate at tip. 



Distributed throughout North and Middle liurope. In Denmark very rare 

 and local; on damp sand banks and sandy rtver banks or like places, some- 

 times together with Stenus species, 3hilopora rublcunda and bledius speci- 

 es. (:Jrejsdalen, 3.. 93, at Lyngby lake 8. 88). 



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