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 notiun, and the rather strongly thickened third joint of maxillary 

 palpi (Fig. 109), otherwise in several respects, mainly though in 

 color, rather variable. A few varieties are occasionally recogni- 

 zed as individual species. 



Pitch-broKvn, shining; The head oftenest black; posterior margins 

 of abdominal joints reddish; antennal base, mouth-parts, and legs 

 reddish-yellow. Fronotum and elytra, or their humeri and posterior 

 margin, brownish-red; the body is frequently brownish-red or yellow- 

 ish-red, and the head alone darker. In the var. lon^ulus Mannh. the 

 body is shiny black, elytra red, around scutellum and on sides ofte- 

 nest darker. In v. bimaculatus Boisd. — ruf icornis Kr. (Ins. D. II, 

 461) the head is black, pronotum blackish-brown, elytra red with an 

 obliterated brownish transversal spot on their posterior half-part; 

 antennae entirely reddish-yellow or the middle only brownish. 



The thorax is naked and shiny; antennae not longer than head and 

 pronotum together, their third joint longer than the second, the dis- 

 tal joints increasingly, but not strongly transverse, the next-last 

 about 1^ times as broad as long. Pronotum posteriorly as broaa as elyt- 



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 ra, hardly broader than long, anteriorly narrowed, slightly convex, 

 the sides as a rule with three obliquely placed disciform punctures; 

 at times the upper of these is lacking; in v. bimaculatus only a sing- 

 le puncture is found on middle of side. Elytra are 1/3 longer than 

 pronotum, and has in the dorsal stripe 6-8 punctures, inside of these 

 oftenest one, or two punctures set in row; abdomen of rather uniform 



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