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Staph. 380; Kraatz Ins. 2. II, 543; Thorns. Scand . Col. II, 143; r/,uls. 

 et Rey Br^vip. 1877, ;23; ^anglb. Kaf. h\. II, 427). 



Besides by the shape of the head easily identified by the color. 



black, dull; head and pronotux sometimes with feeble ore-reflec'^ 

 tion, black-haired; scutellum with black velvety hair; elytra yellow- 

 red or yellow haired; abdomen black-haired, its first four free joints 

 on each side with a golden shiny hair-spot, and the next-last two joints 

 together with the ventral joints at base with golden glistening hair- 

 ed transversal bands; antennae brownish, their base and tip as well 

 as maxillary palpi most often yellowish-red; legs reddish-yellow and 

 yellov.-haired, their femora occasionally dark. 



The heed is triangularly rounded, posteriorly as broad as prono-^ 

 turn, and together with same^ with dense and robust navel-punctation; the 

 antennae short and robust, slightly thickened outwardly, their middle 

 and next-last joints distinctly transverse; pronotum as broad as ely- 

 tra, and as long as broad, often with polished, anteriorly vanishing 

 middle-line; elytra as long as pronotum, particularly densely and very 

 finely punctate, and with a few scattered larger bristle-bearing punc- 

 tures. 1. 12-15 mm. 



In the O the sixth ventral abdominal joint with obtuse-angular 

 emargination. 



Distributed in Europe, in this country rather rare; mostly on 

 sanded fields at manure. 



4. St. latebricola irav. 



(Jrav. Won. 113; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I. 437; ien. Spec. Staph. 



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