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In the O the middle -lobe of the sixth free dorsal joint of the 

 abdomen is distinctly longer than the side-lobes, and the tip. divided 

 into two teeth by a rounded incision. In the Q the middle-lobe of 

 the same joint is broad, and briefly acute, scarcely as lon^ as the 

 almost styliform, bristle-bearing side-lobes (i'ig. 107). 



Distributed everywhere in Europe, and common in Denmark, under 

 leaves, decaying plantstuff, dung and carrion; Also in North America. 



8. T. subterraneus Linn. 



(Linne' Syst.Nat. I, II, 684; iirichs. Jen. Spec. Staph. 259; Kraatz 

 Ins. D. II, 409; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, iS*?-; Rey Br<^vip. 1883, 149; 

 Janglb. Kaf. M. II; 343). 



Easily identified by the remarkable large color-spot and length 

 of elytra, though the color varies. 



Black or pitch-black, shining; sides and back-margin of pronotum 

 often translucid brownish; a more or less extensive longitudinal spot 

 on elytra from the humerus to - or beyond the middle reddish yellow; 

 antennal base and legs brownish-rea. - In a' variety (v. bicolor Jravh.) 

 the sides of pronotum are broadly yellowish-red, and the spot on 

 elytra so extensive, that only the suture and back-margin are pitch- 

 black; in an other (v. ruficollis Lpp.) the entire pronotum and elytra 

 red, with the exception of an abbreviated sutural stripe. 



Head and pronotum are finely and rather densely punctate, back-. 

 ground surface finely reticulate-aciculated ; antennae quite robust, 

 their next-last joints as bro§d as long; pronotum lov. convex, poste- 

 riorly as broad as elytra; these likewise low convex, twice as long 



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