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A wingless, narrowly fusiform species, easily identified within 

 the second series by the color of the short elytra and the legs. 



Black, glistening; head and pronotum specular; elytra yellowish- 

 red, very rarely dark with bronze-reflection, these and the abdomen 

 finely haired; antennal base, and the legs reddish-yellow, maxillary 

 palpi brownish. 



Head oblong, much narrower than pronotum, antennae feebly thick- 

 ened outwardlj', their next-last joints scarsely transverse; pronotum 

 anteriorly distinctly narrowing, with 4 punctures in each dorsal row, 

 and with 4-5 side-punctures; elytra shorter than pronotum, with fine 

 and dense punctation; the abdomen anteriorly with fine and dense, the 

 last two-three dorsal ^oints with scattered punctation. L. 6-7 mm. 



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

 dominal sixth ventral joint at tip with a rather deep angulate inci- 

 sion with membranous border. 



On high sandy ground at root of plants and under moss, but also 

 on sandy lake-shores, distributed in North and Middle Europe, in this 

 country it is rare and local. (Skagen, Hvorup Hills north of Aalborg, 

 Sllkeborg; Fefsnaes and Nyk^bing Lyn^ , Tisvilde, Bromme, Sor;^, at Tiis 

 Lake, and several other places}. The variety with dark, bronze-glisten- 

 ing elytra (v. :^ilvipes Er.) is apparently heretofore not found here. 



16. Ph. nitidulus iravh. 



(:;ravh. Micr. 27; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 457; ien. Spec. Staph. 

 45C; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 589; Thorns. Skand. Col, 11. 167; Muls. et Pey 

 Br^vip. 1877, 389; ianglb. Kaf. M. II, 449). 



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