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Black with brownish abdominal tip, ^ilisteninj, findy haired; club 

 of antennae most oft«n brownish, their base, maxillary palpi and le^s rsd- 

 dish yellow. - (Page 280) 



"Head rather broad, however narrower than pronotum, with extremely fine, 

 scattered punctation; antennal club three- jointed, but not sharply defined, 

 inasmuch as the seventh antennal joint is feebly transverse and broader 

 than the rounded sixth joint. Pronotum posteriorly as broad as elytra, 

 twice &s broad as. long, anteriorly roundly-narrowing, at middle anterior- 

 ly strongly convex, with extremely fine, scattered punctation and togeth- 

 er with the head more strongly glisteninj than the elytra and abdomen; 

 elytra hardly longer than pi^onotuni with very fine rough, scabrous sculp- 

 ture, their sides almost straight; abdomen of uniform breadth, sculptured 

 about like the elytra, its fourth and fifth free dorsal joints of equal 

 length and longer than the two preceding joints. L. 0.7-0.5 mm. 



Distributed everywhere in Europe, and not rare in this country, in 

 leaf mold in forests, gardens and parks, also under offal of hay and straw 

 in stables and outhouses, at the foot of haystacks ei ai. 



2. 0. parva Kr. 



(Kraatz Berl. Ent. Ztschr. 1862, 300; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1873, 131; 

 Janglb. Kaf. I.i. II, 310). 



From pusillima. which it resembles in form, sculpture and size, also 



in the structure of the antennae, it is easily separated by the color and 



more feeble gloss of the body, also that the fifth free dorsal joint of 



abdomen is longer than the fourth. 



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