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Distributed as the preceding species, but in this country everywhere 



in woodland regions more common than this; under the Lark of stubs and 



trunks of infested trees, both deciduous and pinaceous, also in debris 



under fajot. 



2. Subgenus Pachy.;luta Thorns. 



3. L. raficollis Er. 



(Brichs. CJen. Spec. Staplj. 155, Kraatz Ins. C. II, 64; Thorns. Skand. 

 Col. II, 276; Muls. et Rey Bre'vip. 1871, 2S0; (Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 278). 



Easily identified by particularly short elytra, posteriorly widened 

 abdomen and by the color of pronotum. 



Pitch-black, sparsely and finely haired, glistening; pronotum red or 

 yellow-red; abdominal tip brownish- or reddish-yellow; antennae brownish, 

 their base and tip, mouth-parts and legs reddish-yellow. In teneral ani- 

 mals the foremost abdominal Joints are brownish-red or reddish-yellow, 

 and the antennae sometimes also brownish. 



The head is narrower than pronotum, with rather fine and flat, but not 

 dense punctation; antennae at base and middle rather fine, slightly thick- 



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 ened toward the tip, their third Joint a little shorter and finer than the 

 second, the next-last (6-10) distinctly, increasingly transverse, amply 

 li times as broad as long, distal joint short, obtuse tip. Pronotum before 

 the middle nearly as broad as elytra, 1^ times as broad as Ion:,-, slightly 

 narrowing posteriorly and with rounded, obtuse hind corners, feebly convex, 

 punctated like the head, occasionally with a feeble transverse fovea pos- 

 teriorly before scutellum; elytra only as long as or shorter than pronotum, 



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