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 as the rather broad, at the tip bristle-bearing sidelobes, which 

 dorsally have two narrow outer lobes. 



Eistributed in Europe on damp or half-damp ground, under leaves, 

 fagot, and manure, rotting plants and the like, and rather common 

 everywhere in Denmark. 



12. T. niar:J:inellus Fabr. 



(Fabr.Spec. Ins. I, 337; Erich. Kaf. L:k. Br. I, 399; ^en. Spec. 

 Staph. 263; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 412; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 157; Rey 

 Brevip. 1883, 160; ianglb. Kaf. I.'. II, 34?). 



Very closely allied to laticollis . of same length and similar 

 color, but less broad, with pronotum narrower, lov.er convex, and el- 

 ytra somewhat longer. 



Black or pitch-black, shining; sidemargins and back-mLirgin af ^ro- 

 notum rather sharply bounded and narrowly brownish-yellow; elytra 

 pitch-black or blackish-brownish; a longitudinal stripe along the 

 sides and back-margins reddish or brownish yellow; antennal base and 

 legs reddish-yellow. 



Punctation and other sculpture of the body, as well as antennal 

 structure like that of laticollis ; pronotum is not broader than el- 

 ytra, and these are about 1* times as long as pronotum. L. 4-4.5 mm. 



In the (5* the abdominal middle-lobe of the sixth free dorsal joint 

 is longer than the short, tooth-formed, bristle-bearing sidelobes, 

 and the tip divided into two acute points, by a small angular in- 

 cision. In the O the middle-lobe of the same Joint is a little short- 

 er than the sidelobes, and is cleft into two points, each v^ith a fine 



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