(Pa^e 361) 



A comparatively small species, easily distinguishable by the 

 punctate scutellum, and by the color of elytra. 



Blac'K, or pitch-black, glistening ; head and pronotum shiny; 

 elytra and the abdomen finely haired; pronotum sometimes brownish; 

 elytra brownish yellow with a broad, pitch-brown longitudinal stripe 

 close to the suture; posterior margins of abdominal joints, base of 

 the brown antennae, mouth-parts, and legs yellowish-red. 



The head is short oval; its hindmost large, puncture of forehead 

 is a little closer to the eye than to the constriction of head; an- 

 tennal next-last joints are distindtly transverse; pronotum as oroad 

 as elytra, its sides not impressed, outside of the usual dorsal row 

 with a row of 2-3 punctures anteriorly. Scutellum with scattered, but 

 distinct punctation; elytra longer than pronotum, with rather coarse, 

 and not dense punctation; the abdomen tapering, with rather fine and 

 dense punctation. L. 5 mm. 



In the o* the sixth ventral abdominal joint acutely emarginated. 



Distributed in Middle Europe, everywhere extremely rare. It has 

 here been found at Aalborg and Kolding, in the crumblings in hollow 

 poplars, which were ruined by the larva of Cossus . near Odense 1 spe- 

 cimen on a wall. 



(Page 362) 

 (Subgenus C^uedionuchus Sharp.) 

 17. Cj. cinct'is Payk. 



(Payk. Mon. Car. App. 137; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1877, 532; ^anglb. 



Kaf. M. II, 4C2. - impressus Panz. Faun. ierm. 36, 21; Erichs. Kaf. 



'/.k. Br. I, 489; .>en. Spec. Staph. 530; Kraatz Ins. C II, 499; Thorns. 

 Skand. Col. II, 174). 



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