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 ularly fine and very dense punctation, along side-margin - in con- 

 trast to all the following species - with five-seven long, robust 

 outstanding bristle-hair; entire abdomen v^ith particularly fine, and 

 dense punctation, along sides, at tip, and partly also on back-mar- 

 gin of joints with long and robust, outstanding bristle-hair. L. 2-2. 

 5 mm. 



Rare or very rare, local. In rotten, tindery alder-trunks, in 

 hollow trees and stubs, also under loose bark in jnav. -crumbles (Bog- 

 naes Forest; Vang Forest and Agdrup Thicket in Vendsyssel etc. auth.). 

 Distributed particularly in North- and Middle-Europe, but also found 

 south and east of the Mediterranian (Algeria, Syria). 



2. C. bipustulata Jravh. 



(iravh. Micr. 132; Erichs. lien. Spec. Staph. 223; Kraatz Ins. 

 D. II, 437, Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 148; Rey Brevip. 1883, 61; ianglb. 

 Kaf. I;:. II, 3£6). 



Somewhat larger and particularlv broader than pubescens, more 

 convex than li tore a, for the rest easily identified by the color. 



Strongly convex, black, rather shiny, fine, rather densely yel- 

 low-lustre haired; posterior corners of pronotum narrow reddish; 

 elytra anteriorly between humerus and scutellura with a bounded, ra- 

 ther square or posteriorly somevifhat curvate yellowish-red spot; 

 the next-last abdominal joint, or at least its back-margin, base 

 and tip of the antennae as well as mouth-pats and legs reddish-yel- 

 low or yellowish-red. 



Antennae slender, but not as long as those of litoria , their 

 :t-last joint ofp feebly, of (5^ scarcely transversely- truncate. 



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