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 slender, their next-last joints feebly transverse; pronotum amply 

 as long as broad, not narrowing anteriorly, somewhat narrower than 

 •lytra, with 4 punctures in each dorsal row, and with £ side-punc-^ 

 tures, all punctures rather robust; elytra a little lon^jer than pro- 

 notum, with rather coarse and dense punctation; the abdomen with fi- 

 ne and rather dense punctation; first joint of hind-tarsi shorter 

 than the three middle joints together, about as lon^; as the cla\v-joint. 

 L. 7-9 mm. 



Fore-tarsi in both" sexes simple; the abdominal sixth ventral joint 

 in the O with a rather deep angulate incision. 



Elstributed in Europe, also in I'orth America, not rare in this 

 country, at manure, decaying fungi and other plants, often in dunghills 

 for plants, - feompost. 



21. Ph. sordidus iravh. 



(iravh. iV.icr. 176; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 459; ien. Spec. Staph. 

 456; Kraatz Ine. D. II, 591; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 159; Muls. et Fey 

 Bre'vip. 1877, 29C ; Jang lb. Kaf. M. II, 451). 



Smaller than cephalotes , and with the punctation oi' elytra more 

 scattered and coarse; from the closely allied f imetarius it is sep- 

 arated namely by the more square head, by the position of the punc- 

 tures in the transversal row of the forehead, also by the much coai s- 

 er punctation of the elytra. --(Page 4C3) 



Black, head and pronotum polished; elytra with bronze-lustre, 

 occasionally brownish, thesa and abdomen haired; legs and maxillary 

 palpi brown, sometimes the legs are blackish-brcwn or yellowish-brown. 



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