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Body irapunctate, but in surface ground particularly finely shagreened 

 and therefore with modulated shine. L. 2 ram. 



In the ^ sixth free dorsal joint of abdomen in posterior margin at each 

 side with a spine or acute tooth. 



Very rare and always only found singly under leaves and moss on damp 

 or semi-damp f orest-jround, also at fungi and in alluvium (Charlottenlund, 

 IlillerBd, Lethraborg; Odense; Randers, Lundbykrat at Aalborg et al.); Skaane 

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41, ienus Brachlda Muls. et Rey. 



(Iviuls. et Rey Brevip. 1871, 4j San^lb. Kaf. M. II, 305). 



By the short, broad, somewhat oval form of the bod^- , two-jointed labial 

 palpi, four-jointed middle-tarsi (fore-t. 4-, hind-t. S-jointed), also by 

 broadly separated middle-coxae, and by that at tip broadly emarginate meso- 

 sternum between the coxae, Brachida is more closely related to jyrophaena 

 and Sncephalus than to Homalota, to which genus the following species was 

 formerly ascribed (cf. Kraatz Ins. D. II, 323). From Jyrophaena and Bncephalus 

 it is principally separated by, that the first joint of labial palpi is 

 strongly thickened, the body more strongly convex and distinctly haired, 

 and that posterior margin of pronotum is much more finely bounded. 



In Middle and North Surope only 1 species is found. 



1. B. exigua Heer. 



(Heer Faun. Helv. I, 312 [iyrophaenaj ; >anglb. Kaf. M,. II, 306. - notha 

 Erichs. Jen. Spec. Staph, 126; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 323; Sharp Fev. Brit. 

 Horn. 269 ["Homalota]; Liuls. et Rey Brevip. 1671, 7. - piloga Kampe Stett. 

 Ent. Ztg. XI, 1850, 348 [ jyrophaenaj ) . 



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