(Pase 372) 

 not contiguous with the ventral one as in the three closest follow- 

 ing genera. 



This genus encludes only 1 European, widely distributed species. 



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 1. C. maxillosus Linn. 



(Linne Syst. Nat. 1758. 421; Krichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 432; Jen. 

 Spec. Staph. 348; Kraatz Ins. L. II, 529; Ihoms. Skand. Col. 11,141; 

 Muls, et Rey brevip. 1877, 78; uan^jlb. Kaf. M. II, 415). 



Deeply black, glistening; the head, pronotum at middle, and hu- 

 meri naked, with specular shine, the rest of the body more or less 

 densely haired; temples and pronotal fore-corners rough-haired, ely- 

 tra with a broad, ash-gray, densely haired transversal band, spotted 

 with several small patches of black hair, the three middle, ventral 

 abdominal joints, and side-margins with dense, the dorsal side as well 

 as the rest of the joints with sparse, ash-gray hair. 



Body robust, of rather even breadth; head broadly square, in robust 

 O O most often broader than pronotum, the temples with dense and 

 coarse, the rest with extremely fine, scattered punctation; antennae 

 short, scarcely longer than the head, strongly club-formed, their last 

 five Joints broad and increasingly thickened; eyes are placed high, 

 oblong, flat. Pronotum is posteriorly almost as broad as elytra, some- 

 what narrowinj posteriorly, the sides and posterior margin rounded in 

 same rounding, dorsum at midale smooth, the surrounding surface, par- 

 ticularly the fore-oorners densely punctate; elytra somewhat longer 

 than pronotum, with exception of the almost smooth, shiny humeral cor- 



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