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 terior margin of forehead, also labrum, and base of .nandibles, an- 

 tennal first 4-5 joints mostly ventral side, also a rin^ on the le^s 

 before tip of the femora yellowish-red. The dorsal side of the body 

 entirely covered with a rough, more or less matted hair-vestiture , 

 which on the head is yellowish, on pronotum and elytra darkly speck- 

 led yellowish-brown with many small, thinly haired dull spots, on 

 the Ecutellum velvety-black, with yellowish middle line, and on the 

 abdomen yellow-brownish, black-spotted, with a middle-row of golden- 

 glistening, triangular hair-spots, which on each side is bounded by 

 a velvaty black spot. t.Ietasternum and ventral side of abdomen cover- 

 ed with dense, chalky-white hair sprinkled with black. 



The head, pronotum, and elytra are in the surface densely sha- 

 greened, and this therefore dull; head rather square with rounded off 

 temple-corners, the dull ground with many, scattered shiny pitted 

 punctures, and with a little, ore-glistening, polished spot in midd- 

 le of forehead; antennae distinctly thickened outwardly, their middle- 

 and next-last- (€-lC) joints rather strongly transverse; pronotum 

 considerably narrower than elytra and 1/3 shorter than these, with 

 coarse, scattered punctation and often with polished middle-line. L. 

 12-17 mm. 



In the cJ the sixth ventral abdominal joint inoupved rounded at tip. 



It is encountered mostly at manure, but also under leaves, is di- 

 stributed everywhere in Europe, but is not frequent in this country, 

 somewhat local. 



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