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 Closely allied to i^. ful,^ldus . identified particularly by the 

 position of the side-punctures of pronotum, also by the reddish- 

 yellow antennal base, and abdominal tip. 



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*) 



Black, shining; head and pronotum shiny; elytra and abdomen fine- 

 ly haired; .elytra red, more rarely black or brown with the suture 

 red (v. virens Fottenb.), abdominal tip broadly, and posterior mar- 

 gins of the other abdominal joints narrowly reddish-yellow; anten- 

 nae pitch-red, their base, mouth-parts, and the legs reddish-yellow 

 or yellowish-red. 



The head is rounded; the hindmost, large bristle-bearing punc- 

 ture of forehead placed somewhat closer to the eye than to the con- 

 striction of the head. Antennae robust, their next-last five Joints 

 strongly transverse. Pronotum is fully as broad as elytra, and not 

 or only feebly depressed on sides; outside the dorsal punctate row 

 the sides bear a longitudinal row of three or four punctures, of 

 which the hindmost is placed farther back than the large bristle- 

 bearing puncture of the side-margin; elytra are fully as long as 

 pronotum, rather finely and not densely punctate; abdomen slightly 

 tapering, with fine and dense punctation. L. 8-10 mm. 



In the the abdominal sixth ventral joint smoothed and emargi- 

 nate. 



Distributed in Europe, and not rare in our woodland regions, in 

 hollow trees, plant-fertilizer, and at fungi; v. virens is rare. 



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*)perhaps polished 



