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 In the 0* the fifth free dorsal Joint with a longitudinal carina as in 

 lucida , but the sixth without carina. 



Here and there in Middle Europe, also in Skaane; in this country here- 

 tofore only found singly at Teaming (Haderslev) in tree-fun^i (8, 1E03 and 

 1906. L. Andersen and J. /^naersen). 



3. B. lunulata Payk. 



(Payk. Mon. Staph. 58; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Er. I, 257; Jen. Spec. Staph. 

 58; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 39; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 273; -Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 

 264. - flavicollis Muls. et Bey Ere'vip. 1871, 206) 



A slender species, especially identified by the color and sex-charac- 

 ters of the G . 



Yellow-red, rather glistening and sparsely haired; the head and a more 

 or less extensive spot on the outer hind corners of elytra, also a trans- 

 verse band before the abdominal tip black or pitch-brown; antennae most 

 often brownish, their base, also distal joint and the legs reddish-yellow. 



The head (Fig. £1) is rather large, not deeply nor densely puijctated, 

 roundly narrowed posteriorly, and constricted into a rather broad neck, 

 amply half as broad as the head across the eyes; these somewhat protruding; 

 antennae rather long and robust, their third joint longer than the second, 

 the middle and next-last ones increasingly transverse, so that these become 



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 about twice as broad as long; distal joint tapering, a little longer than 

 the two preceding joints together. Pronotum much narrower than elytra, an- 

 teriorly rounded and strongly narrowing, the sides posteriorly nearly straight 

 and the hind corners less sharply rectangular than in the two preceding spe- 



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