(Pa^e 87 P) 



12. ^. msnca Sr. 



(Hrichs. Sen. Spec. Staph. 190; Kraatz Ins. L. II, 3ei; Thorns. Skand. 

 Col. II, 268; J/.uls. et Rey Brevip. 1671, 72; :;anjlb. Kef. M. II, 303). 



A little larger and more robust xhan minima, identifiable by the color 

 and sex-characters of the o^ , 



Fitch-black, glistening; abdominal tip, ana most often also elytral 

 humeri red- or yellow-brown; antennae, mouth-parts and legs yellow. 



Head on the sides with rather fine and scattered punctation; antennae 

 robust, their middle and next-last joints (5-10) strongly transverse; pro- 

 notum short, tv^ice as broad as long, with smoothly rounded sides, together 

 with head and pronotum particularly finely reticulated in surface, dorsal 

 side, and especially at middle of this with rather coarse, scattered punc- 

 tation, with two somevhat larger punctures et middle before posterior mar- 

 gin; elytra somewhat longer than pronotum, with rather fine and even, but 

 not dense granulate-punctatl on; abdomen indistinctly punctated. L. 1.3 mm. 



In the S^ the posterior margin of the sixth free dorsal Joint of abdomen 

 with two slightly inwardly curved, acute teeth, separated by a broad inter- 

 val; the next-last ventral joint is prolonged ^nd broadly rounded off at tip. 



Principally on tree-fungi and under bark of fungusy stumps and trunks; 



rare or very rare, and heretofore apparently only found in Sjaelland (j0rholm, 



Bognaes, Vall^). Lliddle and Korth iiurope; rare in Skaane (Thorns.). 



2. Subgenus Phaenogyra liuls. et Pey. 



13. J. gtrictula Er, 



(Srichs. 5en. Spec. Staph. 191; Kraatz Ins. C. II, 350; Muls. et Fey Bre''- 

 vip. 1671, 80; ianglb. Kaf. M. II, 303). 



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