(Paje 399) 



A comparatively small, narrov; species, windless, identified es- 

 pecially by short, robustly punctate elytra. 



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

 ally with feeble metallic lustre, these as well as the abdomen sparse- 

 ly haired; antennae and mouth-parts darkly reddish-brown; the legs 

 yellowish-red or brownish-yellow. 



The head is oblong, with rather small eyes ana longer temples; 

 antennae proportionally robust, their next-last Joints transverse; 

 pronotum anteriorly narrowing, longer than broad, with 4 punctures 

 in each dorsal row, and with 5 side-punctures, the punctures fine; 

 elytra shorter than pronotum, with robust but not dense punctation; 

 abdomen proportionately thick, often broader than the elytra, with 

 fine, and especially to the back scattered punctation; fore-tarsi in 

 both sexes simple. L. 4-5 mm. 



In the ^ the abdominal sixth ventral joint at tip broadly but not 

 deeply": emargina-te* 



Distributed, but local and rare; on sandy ground, in downs at 



the root of plants growing in the sand, in gravel and sand pits. 



(ilarlum Hedia soutri of lender, leobestrup Hills at Panders, Lindum 



Forest, Nibe; at liis Lake and Vejl/>bugt). Occasionally it is also 



found with the black ant (Thorns.). North and Middle Europe. 



17. Ph. albipes -Jravh. 



(jravh. Micr. 28; Erichs. Kaf. Uk. Br. I, 457; Jen. Spec. Staph. 

 449; Kraatz Ins. L. II, 585; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 163; J.'uls. et V.»-j 

 Br^vip. 1877, 271; Janglb. Kaf. !/.. II, 449). 



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