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and the abdomen with finer and more dense punctation than in humera - 



lis . L. 6-7 mm. 



Distributed in Middle Europe and also found in Skaane (Thorns. )i 



it is therefore not improbable that it also may be found within the 



sphere of our fauna, most likely in Bornholm. 



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30. Q. sclntillans uravh. 



(iravh. Uon. 70; Erichs. Kaf. V.k. Br. I, 494; lien. Spec. Staph. 

 545; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 519; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 178; Muls. et Fey 

 Bre'vip. 1877, 612; ^anglb. Kaf. i:. II, 409). 



Within the subgenus easily identified by the punctation of the 

 head, and by the ore- or bronze-lustre. 



Head, pronotum, and scutellum black, ore or darkish-bronze colored, 

 with specular shine; elytra and abdomen with fine golden hair; elytra 

 brown with metallic lustre; abdomen pitch-black or black-brown, metal- 

 lic changeable color, posterior margins of its Joints often red- or 

 yellow-brownish; the antennae pitch-black, their base, mouth-parts, 

 and legs brownish yellow, tibiae oftenest blackish. 



The head is rounded, and has across the forehead anteriorly a row 

 of four punctures, of which the outer one on each side of inner margin 

 of eye, forms the usual, foremost large bristle-bearing puncture of 

 the forehead; the antennae rather short, their next-last joints feeb- 

 ly transverse; pronotum posteriorly as broad as elytra, slightly nar- 

 rowing anteriorly; elytra a little longer than pronotum, with rather 

 robust and not dense punctation; abdomen smoothly tapering, with dense 



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