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Black, distinctly white- or gray-haired; forebody almost dull, abdom- 

 en rather glistening; elytra sometimes brownish; antennae, mouth-parts, 

 and legs bro»nish-red. 



The head with fine and dense, pronotum fine and very dense punctati- 

 on; the head (see above) posteriorly thick, a little broader than prono- 

 tum; middle joints of the antennae (4-7) rounded, the next-last feebly 

 transverse; pronotum as long as anteriorly broad, posteriorly strongly 

 narrowing with anteriorly rounded, posteriorly iacurvate sides, rather 

 convex, at medial line sometimes feebly grooved; elytra distinctly short- 

 er than pronotum, flat and parallel; abdomen feebly broadened posteriorly, 

 with fine and isolated punctation. L. 1,5-2 mm. 



It has lately been discovered and collected in numbers under stones 

 and seaweeds on the strand at Esbjerg ( Jensen-Haarup et al.). It is pro- 

 bably more widely distributed, principally along the coast of "'est Jutland. 



A closely allied, winged and a little larger species, D. submarina 

 Fairm. , with longer elytra, more densely punctated and posteriorly more 

 strongly widened abdomen, is known from the coasts of Ireland and North 

 France. 



7. Division Myllaenina. 



The head snout-like tapering; maxillary palpi very long, their second 

 and third joints especially elongated; fore-tarsi and middel-tarsi 4-joint- 

 ed; only hind tarsi 5-jointed, 



To this only 1 genus. 



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