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 Distributed in Europe, and particularly in the autumn common 

 in Denmark, in fungi. 



3. Subgenus Carphacis iozis. 



( Megacronus Thorns.). 



8. B. striatus Oliv. 



(Oliv. int. Ill, 42; Erichs. Jen. Spec. Staph. 275; Kraatz Ins. 

 B. II, 448; Ihoms. Skand. Col. Ill, 166; Fey Bre'vip. 1883, 192; (ianglb. 

 Kaf. U. II, 365). 



Of more uniform breadth than the preceding species of this genus, 

 and in comparison *ith these otherwise easily identified by the re- 

 markably robust antennae, and by the color of elytra. 



Black, pitch-black or pitch-brown, shiny; margins of pronotum 

 often translucently reddish-brownish; elytra brownish-red or yellowish- 

 red, but in front of posterior corners with a large, outspread black 

 spot, which however does not include the posterior margin nor reach 

 the suture; posterior margins of the abdominal joints red- or yellow- 

 brownish; antennae pitch-brown, their four first joints, mouth-parts, 

 and legs yellowish-red. 



Head and pronotum smooth and shining; head short; antennae short 

 and robust, distinctly shorter than head and pronotum together, their 

 next-last joints more than twice as broad as long; pronotum posteri- 

 orly only a little narrower than elytra, anteriorly narrowing, its 

 posterior margin finely marginated; 



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 elytra scarcely 1/3 longer than pronotum, with 6-8 punctures in dor- 



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