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 rounded, all the following joints extremely filiform, elongate, long 

 whorl-haired, from the sixth Joint spool-formed (broad fusiform); 

 maxillary palpi elongated, their fourth Joint as long, and about as 

 thick as the third, tapering to a point. 



Pronotum at middle nearly as broad as elytra, much broader than 

 long, with rounded sides, and anteriorly a little more narrowed than 

 posteriorly, slightly convex, in front of the rounded-off-obtuse 

 hind corners obliquely depressed, its sides and posterior margin 

 finely marginate; elytra 1^ times as long as pronotum, without side- 

 margin, their hind-margin within the outer corners not undulated; 

 abdomen posteriorly tapering to a point, its first three free dor- 

 sal joints feebly depressed at base, the fifth longer than the fourth; 

 the legs rather slender, tibiae with fine hair; tarsi 5-Jointed, 



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 first Joint of hind-tarsi as long as the following three joints 

 together. 



The one sole species of this genus is distributed throughout 



the greater part of Europe, and is also found here (Denmark). 



1. T. pilicornis Jtyllh. 



(3yllh. Ins. Suec. II, 417; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I. 403; Sen. 

 Spec. Staph. 268;Kraatz Ins. D. II, 390; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 

 112; P.ey Brevip. 1883, 285; Jang lb. Kaf. U. II, 326). 



In form of body not unlike Phloeocharis subtilissima , but at 



least twice as large as same, and is however easily identified by 



the above stated characters of the genus. 



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