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 and easily identified by the short, very robust, and outwardly strong- 

 ly thickened antennae. 



Yellowish-red, strongly shining; posterior part of the head often, 

 metasternum, and abdomen, with exception of posterior margins of the 

 joints, always pitch-black or brown, elytra along the sides and a- 

 round scutellum are also often dark; antennae are pitch-colored, their 

 base, and the mouth-parts, also the legs reddish-yellow. 



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Antennae are short, and almost club-formly thickened outwardly, 

 their third joint thinner and not longer than the second, the fourth 

 feebly, the fifth more strongly, the following increasingly strong- 

 ly transverse, so that the next-last become almost three times as 

 broad as long. Pronotum is posteriorly as broad as elytra, anteriorly 

 narrowing, without disciform punctures on sides; elytra only little, 

 or scarcely longer than pronotum, with 5-7 punctures in the dorsal 

 stripe, between this and the suture-stripe without punctures; the ab- 

 domen rather strongly tapering, rather strongly and densely punctate, 

 the surface extremely finely transversally aciculate, and like the 

 other species finely haired. L. 3.5 mm. 



Distributed in Middle and North Europe, but here in Denmark rare 

 and everywhere sparse, on damp forest-and marsh-ground under leaves 

 and moss, also in alluvium. 



9. M. forticornis Fauv. 

 (Fauv. Faun, gallo-rhen. Ill, 572; Rey Brevip. 1883, 26$; Janglb. 



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