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characters of the o^ same as in this. L. 2.5 mm. (cf. ianglb., Kraatz). 



Distributed in Middle and North Europe, under bark of infested pina- 



ceous trees; but heretofore not discovered in this country. 



3. PI. pumilio liravh. 



(5ravh. Micr. 98, Erichs. ien. Spec, Staph. 195; Kraatz Ins. B. II, 

 331; Thorns. Skand. Col. 101- subdepressa and similata Liuls. et Rey Brevip. 

 1871, 217 and 124). 



A little smaller than humilis . but more convex and with distinctly 

 glistening head and pronotum. 



Black, finely haired, rather glistening; elytra brown or yellow-brown; 

 antennal base, mouth-parts and legs brov\nish-yellow. 



Head and pronotum very finely and densely punctated; the latter dis- 

 tinctly narrower than elytra, twice as broad as long, anteriorly roundly 

 narrowed, hind corners less rounded-off than in humilis, posterior margin 

 as in this finely margined, at each side feebly incurved; dorsum slightly 



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convex; elytra scarcely ih times as long as pronotum, with fine and dense 

 scabrous punctation; abdomen to the tip with very dense and very fine punc- 

 tation. L. ? mm. 



In the O the posterior margin of the sixth free dorsal joint of abdom- 

 en at middle with a triangular tooth and at each side with an acute spine, 

 which is not extending beyond the twiddle tooth, (t. 3anglb.). 



Said mainly to live under bark of infested oak and fir trees, but is 

 heretofore not found in this country, contrariwise found in Skaane (Thorns.). 



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