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Narrowly fusiform, among closely allied species with proporti- 

 onately short hind-tarsal joint, recognized also by the narrow, ob- 

 long head, and anteriorlj distinctly narrov.ed pronotum. 



Black, glistening; head and pronotum polished, the latter in cer- 

 tain directions with brownish changeable color; elytra occasionally 

 pitch-brovin, these as v<ell as the abdomen with grayish-brown hair; 

 antennal base and mouth brownish; legs reddish-yellow with brov;nish 

 tibiae and tarsi, sometimes entirely pitch-brown (v. alpinus Spph.)- 



The head is small, oblong oval, much narrower than pronotum; the 

 punctures of the transversal punctate row of the forehead fine, and 

 the two middle ones much farther removed from each other than from 

 the outer punctures at inner margin of the eye; the antennae scarcely 

 thickened outwardly, their next-last joints as long as broad; pro- 

 notum anteriorly distinctly narrowed, as long as broad, with 4 punc- 

 tures in «ach dorsal row, and with 4-5 side-punctures; elytra as long 

 as pronotum, with dense and rather fine punctation, abdomen with less 

 dense, but finer punctation; first joint of hind-tarsi thickened some- 

 what, shorter than the following three joints together, only a little 

 longer than the claw-joint. L. 5-6 mm. 



In the 5^ the fore-tarsi are feebly dilated, and the abdominal 

 sixth ventral joint with broadly angulate incision. 



Distributed in Europe and North Asia; in this country as a whole 

 rather rare, mostly in alluvium at lake shores and on the beach, how- 

 ever also in plant-fertilizer. Ihe larva is found and reared by Cand 

 'V. Schlick. (19. P. 97). 



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