(Pa^e 384) 



The head is short-oval, a littlo narrower than pronotum, the temp- 

 les with fine and dense punctation, elsewhere as v.ell as pronotum 

 with scattered and irregular, meaning fine and coarse intermingled 

 punctation, and like pronotum with a rather broad, not distinctly 

 bounded, on pronotum oiost noticeable , smooth middle-line; antennae 

 rather short; pronotum as long as broad, of uniform breadth and about 

 as broad and long as the extremely dense and very finely punctate el- 

 ytra; the abdomen with particularly fine, and dense punctation, and 

 on each dorsal Joint with a transversal row of four, more or less di- 

 stinct bristle-bearing punctures. L. 12-15 mm. 



In the ^ the sixth ventral abdominal joint is feebly emargiaate. 



Distributed in Europe, in this country local and as a whole rare, 

 mostly on sandy or gravelly ground. (Lave Forest and several places 

 in N. Sjaelland; Sundby Storskov, Loll.; Tarup, Fyen; Haderslev, Pan- 

 ders, Raebild). (Page 385) 



13. St. picipennis Fabr. 



(Fabr. Lint. Syst. I, 2, 521; iJrichs. Kaf. lik. Br. I, 442; ien. 

 Spec. Staph. 412; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 559; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 148; 

 Muls. et Rey Br^vip. 1877, 162; Janglb. Kaf. ;.:. II, 433). 



A rather round species, within the subgenus distinguishable et.al. 

 by the striped color pattern of abdomen. 



black, brown-haired; head and pronotum witn bronze-lustre, spar- 

 sely haired and rather shiny; the elytra either brownish red, and 

 often with light-haired longitudinal stripes, or darkly bronze-color- 

 ed, as well as abdomen rather dull, the latter with five light brown- 

 haired longitudinal stripes, the antennal tip, and the tarsi reddisn- 



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