(Pa^e 397) 

 Distributed in iViddle and North Europe; very frequent every- 

 where here on damp forest ground under leaves, also at fungi, under 

 decayed plants and in alluvium. 



11. Ph. fuscipennls Mannh. 



(Mannh. Brach. 28; Ganglb. Kaf. k. II, 447. - politus Fabr. Syst. 

 Snt. 266; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 452; ien. Spec. Staph. 443; Kraatz 

 Ins. E. II, 581; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 162; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 

 1877, 25C). 



Fusiform, closely allied to decorus , but a little smaller, with 

 somewhat glistening elytra, easily identified by the color of the 

 antennal first joint. 



Black, glistening; head and pronotum polished, these as well as 

 the elytra darkly ore- or bronze-colored; elytra and abdomen finely 

 black-haired; untennal first joint yellow on ventral side. 



The head is oval, proportionately small, much narrower than pro- 

 notum, the antennae slender; pronotum anteriorly narrowing, with 4 

 punctures in each dorsal row and 4-5 side-punctures; elytra with denge, 

 fine and somewhat scabrous punctation; abdomen v.ith dense and fine 

 punctation. L. 9-11 mm. 



In the (5^ the fore-tarsi are rather strongly dilated, and the ab- 

 dominal sixth ventral Joint with angulfite incision at tip. 



Distributed in Europe and North Asia, and rather common in this 

 country in open fields at manure, in woods under foliage, and at fun- 

 gi, at water-edges under alluvium. The larva is found and reared by 

 Cand. S. Jensen (9. 1895). 



-113- 



