(Paje 402) 

 joints together, as lon^ as the claw-Joint. L. 7-8 mm. 



In the O^the fore-tarsi are strongly dilated, and its sixth ven- 

 tral joint has at tip a deep angulate incision with a membranous bor- 

 der at the bottom. 



Distributed in Europe; it is here not common ev<irywhere, mainly 

 distributed on damp ground under leaves, moss and in alluvium, at 

 times it is also found ot outflowing tree-sap. 

 ■20. Ph. cephalotes 5ravh. 



(:Jravh. Micr. 22; Erichs. Kaf. Uk. Br. I, 45£ ; icn Spec. Staph. 

 455; Kraatz Ins. E. II, 592; Thorns. Skand Ool . II, 15S; Wuls et Pey. 

 Brevip. 1877, 283; langlb. Kaf. 11. II, 450). 



Father of even breadth, in regard to the closely allied species 

 inter alia_, recognized by the position of the punctures in the trans- 

 versal row of the head, with rather coarsely punctated elytra, and 

 by the often peculiarly broad head of the (CY - — - me-acephalus Heer). 



Black, glistening'; head and pronotum polished; elytra bronze-glis- 

 tening, these and the abdomen with rather long and fine grayish-brown 

 hair; maxillary palpi, and the legs pitch-brovn or reddish-brown; 

 the antennae and posterior marjins of the abdominal joints often brown- 

 ish. 



The head in the p and in small OO roundid-off square and about as 

 broad as pronotum, in robust CO broadly s-juare, and distinctly broader 

 than pronotum, as a rule with an impression on forehead at middle 

 between the eyes; the eyes are shorter than the temples; the middle 

 punctures in the transversal punctate row are placed only a little 

 farther from each other than from the outer punctures; antennas rather 



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