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The head at sides with scattered, lar^'e punctation; middle and next- 

 last joints of antennae (5-10) rather strongly transverse; pronotum short, 

 more than twice as broad as lonj, with sliijhtly rounded sides, with rather 

 fine and irregularly scattered punctation, at middle somewhat more distinct 

 and dense than on the sides, at middle before posterior margin, and at the 

 anterior margin with a couple of larger punctures, out without regular lon-- 

 gitudinal rows of punctures at middle. Elytra with particularly fine, scat- 

 tered, feebly scabrous-punctation; abdomen indistinctly punctated. L. 1-1. 2mm. 



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In the o the fifth free dorsal joint of abdomen with a transverse row 

 of four small carina, posterior margin of the sixth at middle with two fine, 

 close set spines and at each side a somewhat longer and more robust spine 

 or tooth. - There is seemingly some irregularity in tne sex-characters of 

 the o . Several authors describe the sixth free dorsal joint as having a 

 triangular tooth at middle, and a larger et each side (cf. Mulsant, GJangl- 

 bauer), others, that it has three teeth, however not describing these (cf. 

 Seidlitz: Fauna baltica ), and still others, describe it with two fine spines 

 at middle and a more robust tooth at each side {i. "?aterhouse, see Fowlers 

 ■^lol. Brit. I si.). The last I have found confirmed by investigation of the 

 here found animals. 



In fungi, often in colonies; distributed in North and Middle Europe, but 

 rare in Denmark or very local (Vang forest, Vendsyssel, Hinnerup forest; 

 tommerup, Fyn; Br;ideskov at Hiller^d et Al.). 



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