(Pa^-e 239) 

 pronotum is narrower; -but especially is the elytra shorter than in the 

 preceding species, scarcely lon^-er than pronotum, shorter than their breadth 

 together, abdomen is not of even breadth, but feebly fusiform, broadest 

 across the third and fourth free dorsal Joints, punctation isolated and 

 fine. L. 2-2.5 mm. 



Like the preceding species in compost, at hot-house boxes etc. and 

 often in company with same, but rarer, more frequent than this on beaches 

 under seaweed or on lake shores in alluvium. Sometimes very numerously in 

 compost. (Page 24C) 



2. Subgenus Anaulacaspis Janglb. 

 3. F. thoracia CJurt. 



(Curtis Brit. Kntom. X, pi. 462; Srichs. len. Spec. Staph. 52; Kraatz 

 Ins. '2. II, 34; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1875, 442; Janglb. Kaf. i;. II, 257). 



A little larger than obscura , and easily identified by the color of 

 pronot'im. 



Finely gray-haired, glistening; the head pitch-black or reddish-brown; 

 pronotum reddish-yellow; elytra brownish-yellow; abdomen pitch-brown or 

 pitch-black; the antennae reddish-brown, their base, mouth-parts and legs 

 reddish -yellow. 



The head is as broad as pronotum, strongly glistening, extremely fine- 

 ly or indistinctly punctated; antennae robust, distinctly thickened dis- 

 tally, their third joint as long and as thick as the second, the middle 

 and next-last ones distinctly transverse, about of same length, distal 

 joint short, obtuse tapering. Pronot'im cordate, anteriorly strongly round- 

 ed, narrower than elytra, posteriorly strongly narrowing, dorsum convex, 



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