(Paje 401) 



18. Ph. fimetarius Jravh. 



(iravh. Micr. 175; Erichs. Keif. Mk. Br. I, 46C ; ^en. Spec. Staph. 

 456; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 592; Thorns Skand. Gol. II, 15^^; J^'uls. et Fey 

 Br^vip. 1877, 286; janslb. Kaf. I.:. II, 450). 



Of rather even breadth; amon^j closely allied species v.ith short 

 first hind-tarsal joint recognized^-inter olia^-by the position of 

 the punctures in the transversal punctate row of the forehead. 



Black, glistening; head and pronotum polished; elytra \Mith green- 

 ish bronze-lustre; legs brownish-yellow. The elytral suture, and the 

 posterior margins of the abdominal Joints occasionally reddish-brown. 



The head is oblong square, in the <y fully as broad as pronotum, 

 in then a little narrov\er than this, in both with a flat impression 

 at middle between the eyes, and with a transversal punctate row, in 

 which the two middle punctures are placed much farther from each other 

 than from the outer punctures at inner margin of the eye, and are 

 placed obliquely in front of these; antennae rather slender, their 

 next-last joints hardly transverse. Pronotum of even breadth, longer 

 than broad, somewhat narrower than the elytra, vjith 4 punctures in 

 each dorsal row, and with 5 side-punctures, the punctures large and 

 deep; elytra a little longer than pronotum, with rither coarse, but 

 not dense punctation; abdomen with fine and scattered punctation; 

 the hind-tarsal first joint shorter than the following three joints 

 together, scarcely as long as the claw- joint; fore-tarsi in both sex- 

 es simple. L. 6~7 mm. 



In the O the abdominal sixth ventral joint is at tip feebly emar- 

 ginate. 



-12C- 



