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Black, pitch-black or pitch-brown; head, pronotum, and elytra 

 almost naked, shiny; abdomen finely haired, with somewhat modified 

 shine; pronotum, tip uf abdomen, and posterior margins of its joints 

 often reddish-brov.n; antennae, mouth-parts, and le^^s are brownish 

 yellov;. 



Head and pronotum smooth, the latter only along margins endowed 

 with single bristle-punctures, the rest entirely without punctation, 

 elytra with scattered and indistinct punctation , surface finely aciculate; 

 abdomen with very fine and dense punctation. L. 3-3.5 mm. 



Of one of the sexes (<5'?) the next-last dorsal Joint of abdomen 

 is strongly elongate, covering the last Joint, and at tip broadly 

 truncated with rounded corners; of the other sex (p ?) contrariwise 

 not elongated and at tip entirely rounded off, the last Joint uncov- 

 ered, strongly tapering to a point. 



Distributed in this country, and particularly in woodland ri- 

 gions not infrequent in gnaw-crumbles under the bark of old trees 

 and stubs, beneath leaf -muftuM and heaps of twigs, and in piles of 

 leaves in gardens and parks. 



3. Division Hypocyptina . 



Antennae 10-Jointed. All tarsi 4-Jointed. 



To this only 1 jenus in this country. 



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49. ienus Hvpocvptus ..'annh. 



(Uannerh. Brach. II, tlrichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 387; ien. Spec. 

 Staph. 214; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 382; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 110; 



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