(Page 274) 

 and with not strongly protruding eyes, indistinctly punctated; antennae 

 proportionately long, feebly thickened dietally, their fourth joint longer 

 than broad, and longer than in boletl , minima et al., the middle and next- 

 last Joints (5-10) feebly tramsverse. Pronotum narrower than elytra, more 

 than twice as broad as long, with rather strongly rounded sides, indistinct 

 or extremely fine, scattered punctation; elytra at least 1^ times as long 

 as pronotum, as long as their breadth together, rather fine and dense, 

 feebly rugose punctation; abdomen especially finely or indistinctly punc- 

 tated, its first two free dorsal Joints longer than the following. L. 1-1. 

 2 mm. 



In the o the sixth free dorsal joint of abdomen in posterior margin 

 with two, inwardly directed spines, separated by a broad incision. 



Distributed in South and Middle Europe; in this country so far only 

 found in 3k0rping forest, south of Aalborg (1 specimen on a tree-fungus, 

 8. 1885, author), and at ?Iaderslev (Andersen). Denmark is probably its north- 

 ern boundary. (Page 275) 



40. Jenus Snceohalus "'estw. 



('"estwood 7uer. f.vag. "^ool. Til, 1833, pi. 69; Kraatz Ins. L. II, 351; 

 Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 265; Muls. st Pey Ere'vip. 1871, 11; langlb. Kaf. 

 M. II, 304). 



From Jyrophaena , to which Sncephalus is closely allied, it is easily 

 separated by the following pronounced characters: 



Body ovate, very short and broad, almost without punctation or hair 

 vestiture; the head deeply imbedded in pronotum; the eyes slightly protru- 

 ding; antennae short, distinctly thickened distally, and not only their 



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