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Easily Identified by tne punctate rows of elytra. 



Black, strongly glistening; head aad pronotum with specular shine; 

 elytra almost naked, abdomen finely haired; elytra of the imago are 

 black, often with feeble greenish reflection, their suture, sides, 

 and posterior margin reddish yellow, - in the teneral specimens the 

 elytra is out-spread brownish; posterior margins of the abdominal 

 joints are oftenest translucent reddish; legs brownish with darker 

 femora. 



The head is rounded; the hindmost large bristle-bearing puncture 

 of forehead nearer to the eye than to the constriction of head; an- 

 tennal outer Joints are feebly transverse; pronotum scarcely as broad 

 as elytra, slightly narrowing anteriorly, with 2-3 punctures in a row 

 outside the usual dorsal punctate row; elytra S'Omewktal longer than pro- 

 notum, background with scattered, very fine and feeble punctation, and 

 with three rows of large punctures on the dorsum, of which the middle 

 one oftenest has 5, the inner along suture 6, and the outmost from the 

 humerus downward 8 punctures; the abdomen, which oftenest is of me- 

 tallic changeable color, is smoothly tapering, with rather fine and 

 scattered punctation. L. 7-9 mm. 



In the cy the hind femora finely spiniferous on ventral side, and 

 the sixth ventral abdominal joint broadly emarginate at tip. 



Distributed in Europe, and is in this country, mostly in woodland 

 regions, common at fungi, rotten plant-matter, and under foliage. 



18. ■^. laevigatus Gyllh. 



(5yllh. Ins. Suec. II, 306; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 488: 5sn. 3pec. 



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