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 5. PI. atrata 3ahlb. 



(Sahib.- Ins. Fenn. I, 375; Srichs. Jen. Spec. Staph. 1?8; Oanglb. Kaf. 

 liA. II, 2S6. - nltldula Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 10:5). 



Pitch-black, finely haired, rather ^jlistenin^' ; elytra darkly brown, 

 antennal base, mouth-parts and legs brownish-yellow. 



It deviates from the preceding species by darker elytra, and also by 

 more finely and densely punctated abdomen, and by slightly diviating sex- 

 characters of the O , inasmuch as also the fifth free tergite as w/ell as 

 the sixth has two small granules on dorsal side. L. 2 mm. 



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Sistributed in North and L'iddle Europe, and is (t. Thorns.) found in 



northeastern Skaano; so it is not unlikely that it might be found under 



bark of attacked deciduous and pinaceous trees also in this country. 



39. lenus jyrophaena Mannh. 



(Mannerh. brach. 74; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 365; Sen. Spec. Staph. 182; 

 Kraatz Ins. D. II, 352; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 266; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 

 1871, 17; 5anglb. Kaf. U. II, 297). 



■Jyrophaenids , which also include the two following genera, are separated 

 from the rest of the Eolitocharids principally by: that the middle-coxae 

 are rather broadly separated, and that the tip of mesosternum between the 

 coxae is not tapering, but broadly truncated and sometimes slightly emar- 

 ginate. They are further distinguished by a peculiar exterior, v.hich ser- 

 ves as an easy generic ideh±lfiea't?.on character; the special characters 

 of genus :?yrophaena are further denoted in the following: (iig. 95) 



Body short, rather broad and flat, most often with varigated color, and 



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