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 In the o the abdominal sixth ventral Joint smoothened and broad- 

 ly emarginate at tip. 



In cellars, outhouses, hollow trees, and plant-fertilizer; dis- 

 tributed in Europe, but is rare everywhere in this country. 



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 7. Q. ochripennis Men. 



(Menetrier Cat. rais. 1332, 145; f.iuls. et Rey Brevip. 1877, 507; 

 Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 3y9. - variabilis Jyllh. Ins. Suec. II, 303. - 

 puncticollis Thorns. Skand Col. IX, 164). 



Very closely allied to, and of appearance nearly like that of 

 fulgidus , from which it mainly differs by a small bristle-bearing 

 puncture close into the posterior margin of the eye, and by the 

 more unicolorous black of the abdomen. 



Black, glistening; head and pronotum shiny; elytra and abdomen 

 finely haired; elytra yellowish-red, rarely bluish-black (var. nijro - 

 coeruleus Fauv. . variabilis Muls, et Key) mouth-parts, antennae, and 

 legs pitch-black or pitch-brown, the fore-tibiae and tarsi oftenest 

 reddi sh-brown. 



The head is oval, or (in d^ ) raundedly transverse, larger of u 

 than of ^ , with extremely fine and feeble, scattered punctation, as 

 well as pronotum with especially fine undulated transversal acicula- 

 tion; temples fully as long as eyes, with a large bristle-bearing 

 puncture closer to the constriction of the neck than to the eye; 

 the hindmost large bristle-bearing puncture of the forehead is a little 

 closer to the eye than to the constriction of the neck, and oblique- 

 ly outside of this, close into the posterior margin of the eye a smal- 



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