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45, 5enus Myllaena Er. 



(Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 382; 3en. Spec. Staph. 20S; Kraatz Ins. D. 

 II, 367; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 15; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1873, 34; CJanglb. 

 Kaf. M. II, 317). 



By broad pronotum and most often strongly tapering abdomen, the fine 

 and dense punctation of entire body, also by the silky-glistening dense 

 hair vestiture the Myllaena species acquire in appearance not a little 

 likeness with the species of Qxypoda . with which they also in mode of . 

 living have much in common. They ar easily separated from these by form 

 of the head, and structure of tarsi. 



The head (Fig. 99) is rather small, narrower than pronotum, strongly 



bent downward, posteriorly strongly embedded in pronotum, rounded off, but 



not constricted, anteriorly snout-like tapering with large labrum, and 



with medium size, not protruding eyes, and margined temples and genae. 



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Antennae thin and slender, rarely very feebly thickened distally, their 



second joint elongate and longer than the first and third, the following 



joints (4-10) longer than broad, or the next-last very feebly transverse; 



mandibles not prominent; maxillary palpi very long, their second and third 



joints especially elongate, the third fusiform and as long as the first 



two antennal joints together, the fourth spiculiform and scarcely visible; 



labial palpi long, bristle-shaped, two-jointed. 



Fig. 99. Head of Myllaena dubia (Jravh. Ibr. labrum, 1. e. maxil- 

 "lary palpal lobe, p. lab. labial palpus, p. mx. maxillary palpus. 



Pronotum as broad as or broader than elytra, Ij times as broad as long. 



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