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 vestiture; the legs pitch-brown with brownish-yellow knees and tarsi or 

 entirely brownish-yellow. 



The body entire with extremely fine and dense punctation. The head 

 short and broad, however considerably narrower than pronotum, and imbed- 

 ded in this almost to the posterior raar=jin of the eyes; the eyes very 

 large and strongly protruding, the temples especially short; antennae 

 slender, not thickened distally, their third joint shorter and finer than 

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

 broad or longer. Pronotum ik times as broad as long, posteriorly almost 

 as broad as elytra and with anteriorly sliihtly rounded sides, feebly 

 convex, in the ^ at middle broadly and flatly longitudinally grooved; 

 elytra somewhat longer than pronotum; abdomen strongly tapering, its 

 first free dorsal Joint distinctly, the two following not distinctly de- 

 pressed at base. The legs long and slender and first joint of hind tarsi 

 as long as the three following joints together. L. 2-2.5 mm. 



In the 5^ the sixth ventral joint of abdomen is very large, consider- 

 ably prolorfged, at tip broadly rounded off and the edge bristle-haired. 



Very rare and local; in this country heretofore only found in few 



numbers at Nykert)ing F. (Kmrhr. Fabritius- Tengnagel) on clayey, s\'^ampy 



ground together with Tachyusa atra . It is distributed in Middle Europe 



and found in southern England, but not in Sweden. 



27. Genus Tachyusa Erichs. 



(Srichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 3C7; Jen. Stec. Staph. 69; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 

 148; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 3, 4, 5; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1875, 383; Ganglb. 

 Kaf. M. II, 243). 



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