(Pa- 9 380) 

 the abdomen vvith bro*nish-black hair, but the posterior margin of 

 its first free dorsal Joint, and a side-spot at base of the follow- 

 ing dorsal joints, the base of all ventral. joints, also raetasternum 

 anteriorly and posteriorly with golden-yellow glistening hair; anten- 

 nae are often brownish toward the tip, but otherwheres, as well as 

 maxillary palpi, and the legs yellowish-red. 



The head is as broad as pronotum, broadly square with rounded off 

 temple-corners, togetner with pronotum sspecially dense, and rather 

 robustly panctated and like this most often with a narrow, smooth 

 middle-line; (Page 381) antennae rather ro- 

 bust and longer than in the preceding species, only feebly thickened 

 outwardly, their next-last joints however distinctly transverse; pro- 

 notum somewhat narrower than elytra, as long as broad, not narrowing 

 posteriorly; elytra as long as pronotum, the surface extremely densely 

 shagreened, and with especially dense and fine punctation, with sing- 

 le scattered larger bristle-bearing punctures. L. 17-22 mm. 



In the Q the sixth ventral abdominal joint at tip is .d:ee:p-Iy.' ob- 

 tusely angulated. 



Cistrlbuted in all parts of our country, but not frequent; most 



often at manure on fields and roads. Europe, North America. 



7. St. erythropterus Linn. 



(Linne Syst. Nat. Ed. X, 17i8, 422; Erichs. 'Kaf. I'.:k. Br. I, 434; 

 ien. Spec. Staph. 377; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 547; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 

 145; Muls. et Pey Brevip. 1877, IIC; -Janglb. Kaf. !J. II, 429). 



Much like the preceding species, but as a rule narrower, and less 



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