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 arated namely by a more convex form, darkly blue elytra, and yellow- 

 ish-red, rarely brownish, antennae, maxillary palpi, and legs. Pos- 

 terior margin of fifth free dorsal abdominal joint is lacking the 

 usual fine, light cuticle-suture. L.. 15-22 mm. 



It is distributed throughout Europe, but much more frequent 

 southward than northward (ianglb.), is found singly in Finland and 

 Gotland (Thorns.), but heretofore not found in this country. 



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 7. Subgenus Ocypus Steph. 



( Anodus Thorns, I/.uls,). 

 17. St. globulifer Fourcr. 



(Fourcr. Ent. Par. 1785, I. 164; ianglb. Kaf. ::. II, 436. - edenlulus 

 Block Verz. Ins. 1791, 115. - mori o Iravh. I.'icr. 6; Krichs. Kaf. iwk. 

 Br. I, 444j Oen. Spec. Staph. 417; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 563; Thorns. Skand. 

 3ol. II, 150; i'-uls. et Rey Brevip. 1877, 184). 



From the preceding species of this genus, this and the following 

 species are mainly separated in that their long, slender, sickle- 

 shaped mandibles have not a tooth on inner margin, or at most only a 

 feeole suggestion of one. The distal joint of labial palpi (Fig. 113) 

 and in the tfalso the distal joint of maxillary palpi are feebly axe- 

 shaped. In relation to the following species it is easy to identify 

 globulifer by the color of the legs, but is otherwise in several re- 

 gards a variable species. 



Black, finely haired; head and pronotum somewhat glistenjng, ely- 

 tra and abdomen dull; antennae toward the tip, and the tarsi brownish. 



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