(Pa^e 377) 

 Elytra most often with bronze-lustre, darker, more rartly 

 brownish-red. Ihe hair-vestiture of head and pronotum more 

 dense and distinct. L. 12-15 mm.: 14. St. aeneocephalus De ^eer. 



15. Mandibles with a broad tooth at middle (Fij. 112): 7. Subgenus 



Tas.'^ius Thorns 16. 



Mandibles without tooth, long, narrow and sickle-shaped (Fig. 11?) : 

 8. Subgenus Ocypus Steph 17. 



16. Elytra black; legs black with brownish tarsi. L. 14-18 mm.... 



,. 15. St. ater iravh. 



Elytra dark-blue, and legs yellowish-red L. 15-22 mm 



16. St. pedator iravh. 



17. Temples longer than eyes. Legs'black with brownish tarsi. L. 



12-17 mm 17. St. globulifer Jeoffr. 



Temples not longer than eyes. Legs most often reddish-yellow, 



rarely black with brownish tibiae and tarsi. L. 12-17 mm.. 



18. St. compressus Uar sh . 



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1. Subgenus Trichoderma Thoms. 



1. St. pubescens De ieer. 



(De 3eer Ins. IV, 17; Erichs. Kaf. Tilk. Br. I, 434; Jen. Spec. 

 Steph. 372; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 546; Thoms. Skand. Col. II, 142; t'uls. 

 et Pey Brevip. 1877, 94; Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 425). 



Not unlike Ontholestes nebulosus . but smaller, and easily separat- 

 ed from this by the obtuse-angular corners of pronotum anteriorly. 

 Black; the humeral margin of elytra, and often their suture, an- 



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