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 teriorly straight side^, its dorsal side at middle with two lon^i tudina] 

 rows of few larjer punctures, elsevhere with only simple and scattered punc- 

 tation, posterior margin distinctly marginate; elytra amply '/\? longer than 

 pronotum, with very fine and scattered or indistinct punctation; abdomen 

 smoothly taperinij, in the o posteriorly with fine and dense punctation, in 

 the o almost smooth. L. £. £ ram. 



In the O^ the fifth free dorsal joint of abdomen at middle of and before 

 posterior raar^jin with a. small horseshoe-formed knot, open anteriorly, the 

 sixth at middle with a deep, rounded incision, bounded on each side by a 

 somewhat inwardly directed denifeiform lobe (cf. Fig. 96). 



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 Rare or local; in rotting fungi (Aarhus, Hinnerup, Frederits, Sor)2f et al.) 

 North and Central Europe. 



2. J. affinis Sahib. 



(Sahib. Ins. Fenn. I, 383; Erichs. :Jen. Spec. Staph. 184; Kaf. Mk. Br. 

 I, 368; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 357; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 267; Muls. et Fey 

 ^re'vip. 1371, 29; langlb. Kaf. M. II, 3C0). 



^■:j rather slender, proportionately long antennae closely allied to the 

 preceding species, from which it however is easily separated by the color, 

 and by the punctation of elytra. 



Pitch-black or pitch-brown with black head, glistening; pronotum red- 

 brown; elytra brown-yellow or yellow-brown, their outer posterior corners 

 often brownish-pitch, tip of abdomen brownish yellow, its foremost joints 

 occasionally red-brown; antennae feebly brownish yellow, their base, mouth- 

 parts, and legs yellov. . 



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