(Paje 257) 



Head on the sides with simple and coarse punctation and the surface as 

 well as that of pronotum not reticulate in surface, but smooth; antennae 

 short and robust, their third joint very thin, the fourth very small, yet 

 broader than lon:j, the middle and next-last (5-10) about of equal breadth, 

 strongly transverse. Pronotum tv.ice as broad as long and much narrower than 

 elytra, with strongly rounded sides and robustly bounded posterior margin, 

 smoothly convex, dorsum with two, at middle interrupted longitudinal rows 

 of punctures, elsewhere with only two or three sin^jle large punctures on sides 

 and two small dense clusters of smaller punctures posteriorly before scu- 

 tellum; elytra ^/? longer than pronotum, at base and nearest the suture with 

 fine and scattered punctation, at middle and toward the outer hind corners 

 with increasingly robust and dense, somewhat rugose punctation; abdomen 

 broad, slightly rounded tapering, impunctate, the surface extremely feebly 

 reticulated and somewhat less glistening than the forebody. 



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In the o the fifth free dorsal Joint of abdomen before posterior margin 

 with a transverse row of six small longitudinal carina^, of which the outer 

 one on each side most often is smaller, and the two middle ones are closer 

 together than the rest; posterior margin of the sixth joint at middle with 

 a tooth, often with cleft tip, and at each side an equally long, slightly 

 inwardly curved spine or tooth. 



Distributed in all our woodland regions, and not rare in fungi, espe- 

 cially in the autumn. North and Middle Europe. 



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