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 ler, bristle-bearing puncture is found, which sometimes is very fine, 

 but always present however. The antennae are rather robust, their 

 next-last five Joints not strongly transverse. Pronotum is fully as 

 broad as elytra, smoothly convex with sides only slightly impressed, 

 and outside of dorsal punctate rows, on the side-planes with an oblique- 

 ly placed punctate row, consisting; of 3-4 punctures, of which the hind- 

 most is placed farther back than the large, bristle-bearing puncture 

 of the side-margin, it is sometimes indistinct. Elytra are a little 

 longer than pronotum, rather finely and not densely punctate; the 

 abdomen with very fine and feeble, rather scattered punctation. L. 8- 

 10 mm. 



In the ^ the abdominal sixth ventral Joint's posterior margin is 

 at middle smoothened and rather broadly emarginate. 



Distributed throughout Europe; here it is rare or very rare; it 

 occurs in wasp's and humblebee's nests, in hollow trees and in mole's 

 nests (Pestrup Forest at Aalborg, Taps at Kolding, Dyrehaven and sev- 

 eral other places in North-SJaelland) ; var. nlgrocoeruleus is found 

 here and there in N.-SJaelland in mole's nests. It is considered by 

 Mulsant et Eey et. al. as a distinct species. 



8. Q» othinlensis nov. spec. 



(Joh. Entom. Meddel. 1907, 171. - talparum Deville 1910. - 

 Heidenrelchi Bernh. Miinch. Koleopt. Ztg. 1910). 



Very closely allied to ;<. ochripennis and like this with an al- 

 ways present, fine bristle-bearing puncture at inner posterior mar- 

 gin of the eye. The differing characters of the two species are not 



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