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Deeply black, with very fine and short, rather dense hair vestiturej 

 head and pronotum strongly glistening; elytra and abdomen dull; first joint 

 of antennae and the tarsi reddish. 



The head almost smooth; pronotum (see above) anteriorly very finely and 

 rather densely, posteriorly more distinctly punctated; elytra with extre- 

 mely dense, rather fine scabrous punctation; abdomen very densely and rather 

 finely punctated; posterior margin of its first four free dorsal joints 

 densely set with short, uniformly long, pectinate, stiff and somewhat flat 

 hairs. I. 5>5.5 mm. 



In the 6^ posterior margin of the sixth free dorsal joint of abdomen very 

 feebly incurved and the last ventral joint produced into a long tip. In the p 

 tiie posterior margin of the sixth free dorsal joint with an angular incisi- 

 on; the sixth ventral joint prolonged at middle and at each side slightly 

 emarginate; the sixth ventral joint ending in two, closely placed long spines 

 (thorn-shaped art-pencils: Gerci ; cf. Sanglbauer; other authors: Erichson, 

 Kraatz, Thomson, Mulsant, confuse the sexes). 



On boggy ground under leaves, in alluvium and Sphagnum; distributed, 

 but rare and most often singly. 



a. variegata Kiesw, (Kraatz Ins. D. II, 374; Ganglb. Kaf. M. II, 322) 

 is most often a little smaller than brevicollis , and of more uniform breadth, 

 with less densely punctated and more glistening abdomen; this as well as 

 pronotum and elytra are yellow-gray haired in spots. - It is distributed 

 in England, Central Europe and Finland, but is not likely to occur in this 

 country. 



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