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 and le^s reddish yellow, the hindmost tibiae sometimes dark. 



The head is broadly rounded, very little narrower than pronotum, 

 with very larjje, convex eyes, which almost entirely fill the sides of 

 head J the third antennal joint scarcely longer than the second; pro- 

 notum posteriorly as broad as the elytra, scarcely narrowing anteri- 

 orly; elytra as long as pronotum, occasionally a little shorter (v. 

 falliciosus Kr.), together with the scutellum finely and densely punc- 

 tated, but less fine and dense than in picipennis; abdomen tapering 

 posteriorly, with dense and very fine punctation, though less dense 

 than in the preceding species. First Joint of hind tarsj is a little 

 shorter than the claw-joint. L. 4-5 mm. 



In the <T the fore-tarsi more strongly dilated than in the O , 

 and the sixth ventral abdominal joint is angularly emarginate at tip. 



Distributed in Europe, and everywhere in Denmark common, as well 

 in fiirests as on field-, marsh- and heather-ground under the plant- 

 cover. 



2. Division Staphylinina . 



Presternum anteriorly v.ithout gular plate. The inflected sides 

 of pronotum horizontal. As a rule the head is posteriorly with strong- 

 ly neck-formed constriction, its sidesventrally without ridge-formed 

 margin. Antennae inserted farther from eacn ottier than from the eyes. 

 Scutellum punctate and naired. 



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 Key to Grenera. 

 1. ihe tongue emarginate or cleft at tip. Fore-tibiae coarse, thick- 



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