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 than elytra, convex, finely and rather densely punctated, with a small 

 fovea posteriorly before scutelluia, and with fine or indistinct medial 

 groove, posterior margin distinctly bounded; elytra longer than pronotum, 

 together with the scutellum with fine, but more Isolated punctation than 

 this; abdomen feebly fusiform, punctation fine and scattered. L. 2 mm. 



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Distributed throughout North and Middle Europe, but not found in Eng- 

 land. Especially rare in this country; on sandy or gravelly ground, in 

 sand holes or gravel pits (Jilleleje; J^dvad at Silkeborg, vicinity of 

 S0nQerborg). According to Thomson not rare in Skaane in dry gravel pits. 



3. Subgenus Oardiola Muls. et Fey. 

 5. F. obscura Jravh. 



(iravh. Liicr. 74; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 2S5; uen. Spec. Staph. 54; 

 Kraatz Ins. D. II, 35; Thoms. Skand. Col. II, 298; Muls. et Eey Bre'vip. 

 1875, 455; CJanglb. K^f. M. II, 257). 



From the preceding species especially separated by, that sides and pos- 

 terior margin of pronotum are immarginate, and that the elytra have a dis- 

 tinct, fovea-shaped impression inside the humeral angle. Pronotum is pos- 

 teriorly more strongly and more roundly narrowing than in any other species. 



Feddish-brov.n or pitch-brown, finely haired, glistening; the elytra 

 most often of lighter color than the rest of the body, the head and the 

 next-last abdominal joints sometimes darker; antennae and mouth-parts brown- 

 ish-red; the legs reddish-yellow. 



The head is as broad as pronotum, indistinctly punctated, polished, 

 on the vertex of the ^ impressed or broadly grooved; antennae rather ro- 



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