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 bristle. Ihe side-lobes are as usual bristle-bearin-- and have dor- 

 sally a narrov- outer lobe. 



Distributed everywhere in Tviiddle- and North Europe, and is com- 

 mon on damp or half -damp ground under leaves, fagot, manure, in 

 plant-dung and the like. 



13. T. collaris -Jravh, 



(^ravh. Micr. 143; Srich. Kaf. Uk. Br. I, 400; ien. Spec. Staph, 

 264; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 414; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 159; Rey Br^vin. 

 1883, 165; Janglb. Kaf. I.I. II, 346). 



Our smallest species, closely allied to the tv<o preciding speci- 

 es, more distinctly punctated than these, and also distinguishable by 

 the convex, broad form of pronotum, and its as a rule light color. 



Black or pitch-black, shining; pronotum yellowish-red or brov\n- 

 ish-red, often darker at middle; elytra reddish-brovvn or pitchrbrown, 

 their back-margin anc back-margins of the abdominal joints narrov.- 

 ly translucent reddish; antennal base, mouth-parts, and legs reddish- 

 yellow. 



Head is shiny, v.ith very fine and not dense punctation; anten- 

 nae long, their next-last joints as broad as long; pronotum broader 

 than elytra, convex, distinct and rather densely punctatea, surface 



smooth; elytra Ij times as long as pronotum, witu dense and robust 



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 punctation, the surface not aciculated; abdomen tapering, finer and 



a little denser punctated than elytra, its two first free dorsal 



joints with two feeble, small hair-spots on middle, the sixth with 



an outstanding marginal bristle on sides. L. 3-4 mm. 



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