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 margin narrowly set off yellowish-brown; elytra likewise yellowish- 

 brown, but along the suture and at the outer hind corners brownish- 

 black; antennal base, mouth-parts, and legs reddish-yellow. 



Head and pronotum with particularly fine, open punctatjon, and 

 the background surface especially finely transversely aciculated; 

 antennae long and slender, their next-last joints longer than broad; 

 elytra 1/3 longer than pronotum, and shorter than those of subter - 

 raneus . very fine and not densely punctated; abdomen very fine and 

 rather densely punctated, each of its two hindmost joints on sides 

 with an outstanding bristle. L. 5-7 mm. 



The middle-loce of the abdominal sixth free dorsal joint of 6^ 

 is in the tip deeply divided into two teeth; of Q the same joint is 

 cleft in four equally long tips. 



Since it is distributed in North-Europe and found in North- 

 Germany and Middle-Sweden, it is not improbable, that it may be 

 found in Lenmark, though it has not heretofore been observed tiere. 



5. T. rallipes GJravh. 



(:Jravh. Micr. 20; Erichs. .ien. Spec. Staph. 261; Kraatz Ins. D. 

 ir, .407; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 157; Rey Bre'vip. 1383, 138; Jans'lb. 

 Kaf. I.:. II, 341). 



By the color of pronotum near allied to proximus , but a little 

 smaller, and elytra shorter and darker, and differently formed sex- 

 characters. 



Black, shiny; sides of pronotum rather broadly, bounded, its fore- 

 and hind-margin narrowly brownish-yellow; elytra pitch-black, a small 



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