(Pasje 314) 

 In the C? the middle lobe of the abdominal sixth free dorsal Joini 

 longer than the short, tootn-f ormed, bristle-bearing sidelobes, and 

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

 cision. In the ^ the middle lobe of the same Joint is as long as 

 the pointed, narrov.ly trian^le-snaped, bristle-Dearinj sidelobes, the 

 tip is divided into two narrow triangular-shaped points, by a deep 

 acute-angular incision. 



Eistributed in North and Middle Europe; here it is not rare in 

 plant-fertilizer, ana under rotten plants, also on damp grouna under 

 leaves and in alluvium. 



2. Subgenus Crymoporus Thorns. 



14. 1. elonJiatus iyllh. 



(Jyiih. Ins. Suec. II, 251; Srichs. Jen. Spec. vStaph. 265; Kraatz 

 Ins. D. II, 416; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 15&; Rey Bre'vip. 1883, 171; 

 3anglb. Kaf. M. II, 347). 



The largest species of the genus, elongated and uniformly, and 

 by the form alone easily distinguished from all the preceding speci- 

 es. 



Black, feebly glistening; posterior margins of elytra. and abdom- 

 inal joints narrowly translucent reddish; elytra and legs pitch-black 

 or pitch-brown. 



Head and pronotura witli particularly fine, scattered dot-punct- 

 ation, the surface v\iih particularly fine transversal aciculstion; 

 antennae proportionally short and robust, their next-last joints amp- 

 ly as broad as long; pronotum posteriorly at least as broad as elytra, 



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