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In the o the next-last ventral joint of abdomen somewhat prolonc^ed 

 and rounded off at tip. 



At lakes, swamps and streams on water plants and in alluvium; in this 

 country often found here and there in North SJaelland, otherwheres very 

 rare (Odense). Rare in Skaane (Thorns.)* 



5. Division Oli.^otina . 

 The head anteriorly not snout-shaped prolonged. Antennae only 10-jointed, 

 All tarsi 4-jointed. 



To this only 1 ^enus. 



43. lenus Oligota M annh. 



(Mannh. Brach. 78; Srichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 326; Gen. Spec. Staph. 179; 



Kraatz Ins. D. II, 346; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 262, 263; Oli.'^ota -H Mlcrocera ; 



Iiluls. et Rey Brevip. 1873, 58, 108: Microcera + Oligota ; ianglb. Kaf. M. 

 II, 306). 



Oligota spocies belong to the very smallest among the Alsocharines. 



Body slightly convex, in some species evenly broad and narrow, in others 



more oval or ovate (subg. Holobus ) ; the head without neck, rather embedded 



in the pronotum anl eomevhat bent downward, with normally large, slightly 



protruding eyes, and indistinctly marginate temples and genae; antennae 



short, 10- jointed, toward tip club-like thickened, their first two joints 



rather thick, the third joint small and much shorter than the second, ob- 



conic, the two or three following joints small, rounded, the next-last 



(8-9 or 6-9) in combination with the large ovate distal joint form a more 



or less sharply defined three-five-jointed club. Maxillary palpi rather 



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