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 and posterior margin of abdominal sixth ventral joint smoothened and 

 emarginated like in ochripennis . 



It lives and develops in mole's nasts, and is seemingly not rare. 

 After one single specimen ( O ) had first been found near Odense (6. 

 1899 N. P. Jorgensen) it has later been found in numbers in differ- 

 ent places in Nordsjaelland as well as at Silkeborgj the larva is 

 found in the mole's nests and reared by f;ir. S. Fosenberg. The speci- 

 es is presumably widely distributed in Europe, and similar to the 

 later described talparum Deville and Q. Heldenreichl Bernh. 



9. j. ventralis Arag. 



(Arag. Col. Ital. 1830; Muls. et Rey br^vip. 1877, 484; ;;anglb. 

 Kaf. M. II, 399. - fulgidus var. 3 Erichs. ien. Spec. Staph. 526.- 

 truncicola Fairm. Fn. Fr. I. 538). 



A species which is easily identified by the punctation of scu- 

 tellum, and by the brown, seemingly teneral color of the abdomen, and 

 which in regard to the position of the pronotal side-punctures comes 

 close to fulgidus , and in the punctation of the head bears likeness 

 to ochripennis and othinlensis . 



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

 finely haired; abdomen pitchy-red, tjward the tip rust-red; outer 

 part of the antennae, and tarsi, often also the tibiae brownish. 



The head of o transverse, that of^ more rounded, and smaller; 

 its po6terior(hindmost) large, puncture of the forehead is placed 

 almost in middle between the eye and constriction of the head, and 

 in front of this, closer to posterior margin of the eye an other large, 

 bristle-bearing puncture is found; the temples are punctate, and as 



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