(Page 333) 



Black, with fine bl&ck hair, dull or feebly glistening; anten- 

 nae toward tlie tip and the tarsi brownish. 



VTingless. The head square, as broad as pronotum, together with 

 this densely and rather strongly punctate, and like same with a fine, 

 on pronotum through running, on the head anteriorly aDbreviated, 

 smooth middle-line; eyes much shorter than temples; antennae rather 

 slender, from the middle outwardly distinctly thinned; pronotum of 

 even breadth, as broad as elytra; these pecularly short, and distinct- 

 ly shorter than pronotum, with extremely dense, rather fine punctati- 

 on, dull; abdomen of even breadth, with dense and very fine punctati- 

 on; fore-tibiae on outer margin with only a single spine above the tip. 

 L. 15-2C mm. 



In the O^ the sixth ventral abdominal joint with deep triangular 

 incision. 



■Widely distributed in Europe and North Asia, in this country it 



is local and rare; under leaves, moss, stones and eerth-knolls. 



(Lollana-Falster several places; Copenhagen, Vordingborg; Haderslev, 



S;jrnderborg). (Page 384) 



5. Subgenus Pseudocypus Uuls. et Bey. 



11. St. brunnipes Fabr. 



(Fabr. Spec. Ins. I, 336; Er ichs. Kaf. Uk. Br. I, 441; :}en. Spec. 

 Staph. 41C; Kraatz Ins. L. II, 557; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 148; Muls. 

 et Fey Bre'vip. 1877, 153; ianglb. Kaf M. II, 433). 



Recognized by proportionally short elytra and by the light color 



of the legs. 



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