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 robust and v.ith glistening golden-haired scutellura. 



Black, dull; head and pronotum black-haired, the forehead anie- 

 rioely and around the neck with feebly glistening golden hair; scu- 

 tellum likewise with golden glistening hair; elytra with reddish 

 yellowish-brown, reddish-yellow hair; abdomen with black hair of feeb- 

 le silky lustre, its first three, free aorsal joints on the sides 

 most often with a feeble or not distinct, the three following joints 

 both dorsally and ventrally with a distinct, golden glistening hair- 

 spot at base on each side; antennae at middle pitch-black, their base 

 and tip, maxillary palpi and legs yellowish-red. 



The head is broad and square, broader than pronotum, head and pro- 

 notum both particularly dense and very finely punctate, somewhat finer 

 than in the preceding species, like this also as a rule with a fine, 

 smooth middle-line; antennae rather slender, their next-last joints 

 (seen from one side) still distinctly transverse; pronotum narrower 

 than elytra, a little longer than broad, slightly narrowing posteri- 

 orly; punotation of elytra and abdomen same as in caesareus. L. 14-18 

 nun. 



In the O the sixth ventral abdominal joint is at tip rather deep*:- 

 ly PQQHdly emar^ltia'te- 



Distributed everywhere in Europe, and in this country more fre- 

 quent than the preceding species; it occurs as well at manure on field 

 ground as under leaves in woods, occasionally also in wet moss in 

 water holes in marshes. 



4. Subgenus Abemus Muls. et Rey. 



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