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 bronze-colored, head and pronotum with denser and longer brown hair, 

 more densely punctate, and the smooth middle-line of pronotum more 

 sharply bounded, slightly convex; tne head is narrower than pronotum, 

 ovately rounded, with broadly rounded off temples; antennal base of- 

 tenest reddish-yellow, the abdominal light stripes often less distinct 

 than in picipennis . but the large bristle-bearing punctures of the 

 joints more numerous and more robust. L. 12-15 mm. 



In the & the sixth ventral abdominal jOint very feeuly emargina- 

 te at tip. 



Under stones and at manure, or on high forest ground under lea- 

 ves; distributed like the preceding species, out not as common in 



this country. (Page 386) 



6. Subgenus Tas gius Steph., Thorns. 

 15. St. ater iravh. 



(Jravh. r.^icr. 161; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 444; Jen. Spec. Staph. 

 416, Kraatz Ins. D. II, 562; Ihoms. Skand. Col. II, 149; Muls. et Pey 

 Br^vip. 1877, 179; Janglb. ?:af. M. II, 435. - morio Sahib. Ins. Fenn. 

 I, 3C9). 



An elongate, uniformly broad, somewhat flat and rather glisten- 

 ing species, which together with the following is distinguished in 

 that the mandibles (Fig. 112) on the inner margin is armed with ane 

 single, broad and obtuse, yet robust tooth, and that the distal joint 

 of the labial palpi in both sexes is feebly axe-shaped. In relation 

 to the following species it is easily recognized by the color of ely- 

 tra and legs- 

 Black; heed and pronotum strongly glistening, with very scattered 



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