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with a fine carina, but the sixth without carina. L. 3.5-4 mm. (t. CJanglb.). 



Its principal habitat is southern Middle Burope, and it is not found 



in Denmark. Thomson (Skand. Ins. Coleopt. 44) refers to it as found in 



Skaane, but it is most probable that E . bella Thorns. .^a- lK Mulsanti Sharp. 



5. E. obliqua iir. 



^Brichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 298; Gen. Spec. Staph. 59; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 

 40; KxilB. et Fey Erevip. 1871, 214; (Jan^lb. Kaf. M. II, 265). 



Prom all precedin^j species it is easily separated especially by the color. 



The head is black; pronotum darkly brov^n or reddish-brown; elytra brown- 

 ish-yellow or brownish-red with a mutual, black spot around scutellum, and 

 a large black spot on hind corners; abdomen pitch-black; posterior margins 

 of the foremost joints reddish-brown; antennae, including distal joint, 

 brownish-black, their base, mouth-parts, and legs brownish red, 



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Head rather strongly and densely punctated; neck fully half as broad 

 as head, antennae robust, their next-last joints twice as broad as long; 

 pronotum densely and rather strongly punctated, elytra coarsely and very 

 densely punctated and these anteriorly at the suture slightly impressed; 

 abdomen robustly and densely punctated in the transverse grooves of the 

 foremost dorsal joints, posteriorly with finer and more scattered puncta- 

 tion. L. 3.5-4 mm. 



In the o the fifth free dorsal joint of abdomen is without carina at 

 middle, but all over with scattered granulate-punctation, the elytra along 

 suture posteriorly without longitudinal carina, (t. Ganglb.). 



Distributed everywhere in Lliddle Europe, and found in Holsten (Freller; ; 



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