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 reddish-browni sh. 



The head is short and oval; the hindmost, lar^e, bristle-bear- 

 ing puncture of forehead is set a little closer to the eye than to 

 the constriction of the head; temples are finely punctate; the an- 

 tennae rather slender, and their next-last joints only feebly trans- 

 verse; (Page 360) pronotum as 



broad as elytra, somewhat narrowing anteriorly, with strongly deflect- 

 ed, not impressed sides, and with only 1-2 side-punctures outside of 

 the usual dorsal punctate row close to the fore-margin. Elytra are 

 fully as lon,5 as pronotum, with rather coarse and not dense puncta- 

 tion; the abdomen tapering toward the tip, with rather fine and den- 

 se punctation. L. 7-9 mm. 



In the <J the ventral sixth abdominal joint smoothened and broad- 

 ly emarginate at tip. 



Distributed in Europe and North Asia, and rather frequent here 



particularly in woodland rigions, under leaves, in hollow trees, in 



plant-fertilizer, ana outhouses, and like places. 



14. Q. tenellus Jravh. 



(iravh. Won. 54; Erichs. Jen. Spec. Staph. ."551; Janglb. Kaf. U. 

 II, 401. - poly stigma "'ankow; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1877, 540). 



In appearance, form and color most like the preceding species, 

 from which it however is easily separated by the number and position 

 of characters of head and pronotum. 



Black, glistening; head and pronotum shiny; the elytra and abdo- 

 men finely haired; elytra black or brownish, their suture, sides and 



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