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Black; with rather dense, fine irayish-brown hair, dull; anten- 

 nae brownish at middle, elsewhere as well as tnouth-parts, and le^'s 

 reddish-yellow; occasionally the fore-femora, or the middle- and 

 hind-tibiae brownish; very rarely are the legs predominatingly dark 

 (v. cerdo lir.)- (Page 388) 



The head is scarcely broader than pronotum, transverse, with ra- 

 ther short temples, very densely and rather finely punctate; anten- 

 nae rather slender; pronotum of even breadth, with especially dense 

 8nd fine punctation, only posteriorly with a feebly suggested im- 

 punctate middle-line; elytra as long as pronotum, with extremely den- 

 se, but somewhat less fine punctation than the slender, very dense, 

 and finely punctate abdomen. L. 12-17 mm. 



In the <ythe sixth ventral abdominal joint feebly incurved at tip. 



Fare and local. In forests under leaves, but also at shores under 



seaweed. (Kanders, Ry ; Hoskilde, Copenhagen, Lynjby; Lolland-Falster 



in several places). The form cerdo iir. is heretofore not found in this 



country. 



£9. Jenus Philonthus Curt. 



(Curtis Brit. Znt. VIII, 1836 pi. 61C ; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 

 445; j«n. Spec. Staph. 426; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 565; ianglb. Kaf. Li. 

 II, 437. - Ihilonthu s-f -iefyribus -^ iabrius Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 153, 

 156, 165; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1877, 2CC, 386, 391). 



A genus including numerous species, in relation to the nearest 

 preceding genera recognized mainly by the undivided ligula, smooth 

 neck, rather narrow fore-tibiae, and more often also by two conspic- 

 uous punctate rows on pronotum. 



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