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11. 1. latjcollis iravh. 



(viravh. ivlicr. 141; Kraatz Ins. E. II, 413; Ihoras. Skand. Col. 

 IX, 302; Key Brevip. 1882. 157; JJanglb. Kaf. I.:. 11; 345). 



This and the two following are the smaller species of the genus; 

 they as v^ell as ruf ipennis differ from all the preceding species 

 in that the background surface of elytra is not aciculated; for the 

 rest laticollis is particularly identifiable by pronotura being pro- 

 portionally broad and convex. 



Black or pitcl:-black, shining; side-margins and back-margin of 

 pronotum narrowly translucent brownish-yellov* ; elytra brov;nish-black 

 or brov.n, a longitudinal stripe from humerus along the sides, as well 

 as back-margins reddish-brown or brownish-yellow; antennal base end 

 legs reddish-yellow. 



Head and pronotum is very fine ana. rather densely aciculate-punct- 

 ated; antennae slender, their next-last joints as long as broad; pro- 

 notum rather convex and distinctly broader than elytra, w'nich are 

 1/^ times as long as pronotum, very dense and distinctly punctated; 

 abdomen tapering, very fine and densely punctated, its two-three first 

 free dorsal joints with two feeble hair-spots on middle, and the 

 fifth with an outstanding marginal bristle on sides. L. 4-4.5 mm. 



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

 longer than the bristle-bearing, acute side-lobes, and by a rounded 

 incision in tip divided into two acute points, each with two-three 

 fine bristles in tip. In the p the middle lobe of same joint is div- 

 ided by a deeper, rounded incision into two suarp tips of same len.^th 



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