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 face finely aciculated; antennae rather slender, considerably more 

 robust than those of flavjpes . their four-five next-last joints ful- 

 ly as broad as long; pronotum behind middle as broad as elytra, about 

 twice as broad as long, anteriorly feebly narrowing; elytra amply 

 lo- times as long as pronotum , and somewhat more distinctly punct- 

 ate than this, - - (Page 307) the surface finely trans- 



verse-aciculate; abdomen strongly tapering, with fine and very dense 

 punctation, each of its three first visible dorsal joints with two 

 small, obliquely placed hair-spots on middle, the fifth free joint 

 with a long bristle in side-margins. L. 6-8 ram. 



The abdominal sixth free dorsal joint of & is somewhat elongat- 

 ed in middle, and in tip feebly emarginate, trimmed- or rounded-off. 

 Cf ^ the same joint is deeply triple-divided, the medial lobe dor- 

 sally rather broad, then abruptly set off : stylifonn ■, as long as 

 the two styliform --. - sidelobes, v/hich each bears a long bristle in 

 tip (Fig. 1C3). 



At fungus, carrion, and manure, distributed in North- and Kiddle- 

 Europe, but rather rare in Denmark, particularly in the northern 

 part of Jutland. 



3. T. humeral is Jravh. 



(:Jravh. laiicr. 136; Erichs. vien. Spec. Staph.. i;£6; Kraatz Ins. 

 L. II, 400; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 155; Rey Bre'vip. 1883, 133; 

 :}anglb. Kaf. LI. II, 341). 



From proximus , to which it is closely allied and resembles in 



color, it differs (cf. Kraatz and ianglb.) particularly by the 



following 9hftr4(5t4ristics: 



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