(Paie 381) 



7a. St. fossor Scop. 



(Scop. Ann. Hist. Nat. V, 1772. lOS; r-richs. Jen. Spec. Staph. 

 377; Kraatz Ins. B. II, 549; Muls. ot Rey Br^vip 1877, 246; Janglb. 

 Kaf. U. II, 426.- fodiens iravh. Mon. 116). 



About of same size as caesareus . easily recognized oy form of the 

 head, and by the color. 



(Pa^e 382) 



Black, finely haired, dull; head, pronotum, and the foremost part of 

 elytra brov.nish-red, head and sides of pronotum anteriorly often brown- 

 ish-black; posterior half part of elytra or at least the hind corners, 

 yellowish-red and dense yellow hair; scutellum black and densely black- 

 haired; abdomen alon^ middle, at base of joints with a row of jolden 

 yellow hair-spots, which on each side are bounded by olack hair-spots, 

 the sixth free dorsal Joint at base with golden hair; antennae, maxil- 

 lary palpi, and femora brownish-black, the distal joint of maxillary 

 palpi reddish, tibiae and tarsi reddish or brownish yellov. 



Ihe head is rounded, as long as broad, together with pronotum with 

 extremely dense scabrous punctation; antennae rather slender, not 

 thichened, rather feebly thinned toward the tip, their middle and next- 

 last joints not transverse; pronotum narrower than elytra, as long as 

 broad, posteriorly narrowing and with deflexed side-margins; elytra 

 only a little longer than pronotum, very densely shagreened; the ab- 

 domen tapering. L. 17-20 mm. 



In the d the sixth ventral abdominal joint wi.th dfeep angliiaJr emar- 



|ia&-iion. 



Tv'idely distributed in Middle Europe, found at Hamburg; according 



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