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 broad, distal joint only as long as the tenth; mandibles rather slender, 

 each armed with a robust tooth inside the strongly curved tip; labrum lar- 

 ge, strongly protruding, attached to clypeus by a free membrane; maxillary 

 palpi very long, their second and third joints elongate, slender, of same 

 length, the fourth extraordinarily fine and small, scarcely visible; labi- 

 al palpi three-jointed, their first joint five times as long as the two 

 following joints together. 



Posteriorly pronotum fits closely to elytra and is here as broad as 



these, narrowing anteriorly, at middle convex, before hind corners flatly 



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depressed; elytra as rilyt i rn a s. long as pronotum, with slightly arcuate sides, 



together broadly incurved posteriorly and each with an angular, small in- 

 cision inside the outer corners; abdomen feebly tapering, rather thich, its 

 two-three first free dorsal joints feebly depressed at base, and the fifth 

 much longer than each of the preceding four equally long joints; legs rather 

 short and slender, all tarsi 5-jointed, first joint of middle and hind tarsi 

 as long as the two following joints together, tibiae armed with short, scat- 

 tered spines. 



The species live on wet or very damp, swampy ground, under leaves and 

 in water moss. In Middle and North Europe 2 species are distributed, of which 

 one is found in this country. 



1. a. brevlcoilis Payk. 



(Payk. Faun. Suec. Ill, 398; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 381; CJen. Spec. Staph. 

 212; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 373; Thorns. Skand. Col. II. 241; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 

 1873. 22; Ganglb. Kaf. M. II, 322). 



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