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 brown. 



The head is about as broad as pronotum, broadly square, with 

 rounded off temple-corners, all over with rather fine, and particu- 

 larly behind the eyes dense punctation, the vertex most often with 

 smooth middle-line; antennae rather slender; pronotum as broad as 

 elytra, and as long as broad, not narrowing posteriorly, rather fine- 

 ly and densely punctate, with a smooth middle-line, and on each side 

 of this a rov. of larger punctures; elytra hardly as long as pronotum, 

 with especially dense and very fine punctation, and with a larger brist- 

 le-bearing puncture on each side of scutellum, and one similar before 

 the posterior margin; the abdomen with extremely dense and fine punc- 

 tation and on each dorsal joint with a transversal row of 4 or 6 lar- 

 ger punctures. L. 14-17 mm. 



In the O the sixth ventral abdominal joint feebly emarginate. 



Distributed everywhere in Europe, and rather common here, mostly 

 on high and open ground, at manure and under stones. Ihe larva is 

 found at Holte (14. 6. 96) and in Bognaes (2C. C. 57) and reared. 

 (S. Rosenberg). 



14. St. aeneocephalus De Jreer. 



(De Ireer Ins. IV, 22; fiuls. et Rey Brevip. 1877, 164; ^anglb. 

 Kaf . li. II, 434. - cupreus Fossi, Srichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 443; Jen Spec. 

 Staph. 412; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 560; Thoms. Skand. Gol. II, 14S). 



The difference between this species and picipennis is not consi- 

 derable, and often difficult to definitely determine. Most often how- 

 ever aeneocephalus is smaller and narrower, elytra more frequently 



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