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 Fore-tarsi in both sexes slightly dilated. L. £-11 mm. 



Distributed in Europe, and rather common here, at manure, also 

 decaying animal- and plant-fragments, also in alluvium, and on heaths 

 under lichen and heather. 



2nd Series: Pronetum with 4 Punctures in each Dorsal Row. 



4. Ph. nitidus Fabr. 



(Fabr. Mant. Ins. I, 220; Lrichs. rCaf. wk. Br. I, 448; len. Spec. 

 Staph. 435; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 576; Thorns. Skand. 3ol. II, 156; .Viuls. 

 et Rey Br^vip. 1877, 220; ianglb. Kaf. K. II, 443). 



"■'ithin the second series easily identified by the conspicuous red 

 color of the elytra. 



Glistening black; elytra brownish-red, with brownish-yellow hair, 

 the abdomen with darker hair. 



The head (Fig. 116) is in the O broadly square, and broader than 

 pronotum, in the o rounded-siuare , and a little narrower than prono- 

 tum, its temples densely and coarsely punctate; pronetum a little nar- 

 rower then elytra with posteriorly feebly incurved side-margins, with 

 4 punctures in each dorsal row, and outside of these '.vith 8-10 robust, 

 partly row-formed side-punctures. Elytra with dense and rather robust, 

 abdomen with lees dense and finer punctation; the tarsi in both sexes 

 only very feebly dilated. L. 11-13 mm. 



In the O the abdominal sixth dorsal joint at tip with an angulate 

 incision. 



Fig. lie. Philonthus nitidus Fabr. 



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