(Pa„'e 250) 

 the next-last abdominal ^oints pitch-black; abdominal tip reddish; antennae, 

 mouth-parts and legs red or yellowish-red. 



Forebody particularly densely and finely shagrsened in surface and 

 therefore with dull shine; the head somewhat narrower than prpnotum, in- 

 distinctly punctated; antennae feebly thickened distally, their third 

 joint scarcely as long as the second, the fourth as long as broad, the 

 following feebly increasingly transverse, so that the next-last become 

 about twice as broad as long; distal joint oviform, tapering. Pronotum 

 at middle as broad or about as broad as elytra, ih times as broad as long, 

 anteriorly and posteriorly feebly narrowing, with anteriorly strongly de- 

 flected, rounded sides and with obtuse angular hind corners, rather con- 

 vex, with especially fine and rather dense punctation, and with a small 

 transverse fovea posteriorly before scutellum, sometimes v;ith a feeble 

 medial groove; elytra distinctly longer than pronotum, with dense and rath- 

 er fine scabrous punctation, their posterior margin inside the outer cor- 

 ners rather deeply incurved; abdomen equally broad, anteriorly with dense 

 and rather fine, posteriorly more isolated and finer punctation. L. 2. 5-3. 5mm. 



In the O The elytra nearest the suture with a feeble longitudinal fold, 

 fifth free dorsal joint of abdomen at mediaii-line with a fine, sometimes 

 split longitudinal carina, the sixth with a small oblong granule; poste- 

 rioj? margin of the sixth joint rounded, indistinctly serrate and with a 

 small incision in tip. 



Distributed in North and :;entral Europe; in this country rather rare 

 and local, more frequent in northern Jutland than southward and in the 

 islands^ under bark of stubs and stems of infested oak, beech and pinaceous 



trees. 



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