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 with very fine and dense punctation. L. 4-5 mm. 



It lives particularly in dark places in buildings: cellars, barns, 

 and outhouses, in waste, also in hollow trees, distributed, but rare. 

 The form nigra Kr. occurs frequently in mole's nests, bumblebee's 

 nests, and like places; its larva is reared by Mr. E. Rosenberg. 



2. H. biaotata ^iravh. 



(3ravh. Micr. 28; Brichs. Sen. Spec. Staph. 516; Kraatz Ins. D. 

 II, 485; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1877, 667; Sanglb. Kaf. U. II, 387). 



Ordinarily a little larger than praevia , from which it otherwise 

 differ mainly by the longer antennae, and longer elytra. 



Black; head and pronotum shiny; elytra and the abdomen finely 

 haired, with a rather feeble, somewhat silky shine; posterior margin 

 of elytra, tip of abdomen, oftenest also posterior margins of its 

 joints, antennal base, mouth, and the legs brownish or reddish yel- 

 low. 



Head is of same form as that of praevia with distinct temple- 

 corners, and also similar punctation of pronotum. Antennae are longer 



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 than head and pronotum together, their third joint longer than or as 

 long as the second, the middle ones longer than broad, the next-last 

 not transverse. Pronotum is as long as broad, anteriorly rather 

 strongly narrowing; elytra oftenest distinctly longer than pronotum, 

 and together with scutellum, and abdomen with rather fine and dense, 

 somewhat more robust punctation than that of praevia . L. 5 mm. 



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