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 ly incurved, at-middle, and the sixth a little prolonged v\ith obtuse an- 

 gular tip. 



Distributed at the coasts of France, Holland, England anql Denmark; 

 in this country very rare and seemingly local, on sandy strand under sea- 

 weeds and stones. (Spndervig in Holmlandj Adserbo on the northern coast 



of Zealand J Battl, Falster). 



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2. Subgenus Actosus Muls. 



2. Ph. balticus Kr. 



(Kraatz Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. 1895, 52j Thorns. Skand. Col. IX, 207; 

 Muls. et Fey Br^vip. 1871, 304; :Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 267. - ni-<riventris 

 Kraatz Ins. D. II, 43). 



About of same size as spinifer , lighter in color and with much short- 

 er elytra; wingless. 



Yellow-red or brownish-yellow, densely grayish-yellow haired; forebody 

 dull, abdomen feebly glistening; the head and the abdominal middle joints 

 reddish-brown or pitch-black; sometimes abdomen is entirely pitch-black 

 with brownish-red tip. 



Head, pronotum and elytra particularly finely and very densely punc- 

 tated; head as broad as pronotum, this posteriorly distinctly narrowing 

 with feebly incurvate sides, medial line sometimes feebly grooved or slight- 

 ly depressed; elytra //s shorter than pronotum and almost narrower than this 

 anteriorly, their sides parallel; abdomen elongate, posteriorly distinctly 

 croadened, densely and finely punctated. L. 2.5 ram. 



In the ^ the fifth ventral Joint of abdomen flatly emarginate posteri- 

 orly, and the sixth slightly prolonged, the tip obtuse angular. 



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