^fage 388) 

 Body elongate, feebly fusiform or of rather even breadth; head 

 and pronotum polished, , and except for some erect bristles, also naked; 

 scutellum, elytra and abdomen haired; the head varies in form, pos- 

 teriorly rather strongly constricted, forming a short, impunctate 

 neck, on the forehead as rule with a transversal row of four punc- 

 tures, behind eyes and on the temples with more or less dense punc- 

 tation; the eyes are not protruding, most often ordinarily large, 

 sometimes small; temples and genae without marginal ridges; antennae 

 monlliform or feebly thickened outwardly, their third Joint ordinari- 

 ly longer than the second, distal joint of maxillary palpi most of- 

 ten longer than the next-last, and somewhat fusiformly more rarely 

 conically tapering; the last joint of labial palpi most often as thick 

 as the next-last (Fig. 114. Subgenus Philonthus s. str. ) more rare- 

 ly strikingly finer and narrower (Fig. 115. Subgenus iabrius ) . The 

 ligula undivided, rounded off at tip. 



Fig. 114. Labial palpi of Philonthus nitidus Fabr. (Subgenus 

 Philonthus s. str.). 



Fig. 115. Labial palpi of Philonthus nigritulus Jravh. 

 (Subgenus jabrius Steph.). 



Pronotum is most often narrower than elytra, either of rather 

 even breadth or narrowing a little anteriorly, with a few excepti- 

 ons the dorsum is at middle adorned with two longitudinal rows of ra- 

 ther large punctures, the number of which in our species may vary 

 from 4-12 in each row, outside of these on the side-planes also with 

 several (4-6) partly rov\-f orming , more rarely numerous scattered punc- 

 tures, but otherwheres not punctate, the surface oftenest very finely 



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