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S3. Ph. eber.inus jravh. 



(Jravh. Micr. 170 i Erichs. ien. Spec. Staph. 461, ex parte; Kraatz 

 Ins. D. II, 5S6, ex parte; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 159; Muls. et Pay Bre- 

 vlp. 1877, 3C1; ^anglb. Kef. K. II, 451. - varians Erichs. Kaf. Mk. 

 Br. I. 461). 



Of rather ever breadth (3*) or feebly fusiform (O), among the fol- 

 loving most closely allied species particularly recognizable by the 

 color of elytra, the angulate tip of the first free abdominal joint?, 

 and the elongate first Joint of the hind tarsi. 



Black, glistening; head ana pronotum polished; the elytra black 

 with bronze reflection, these together with the abdomen finely hair- 

 ed; the legs are occasionally reddish-brown. 



The head is rounded-off-square, in the o as broad as pronotum, 

 in the Q narrower than seme; the eyes shorter than the temples; an- 

 tennae scarcely thickened outwardly (distally), their middle and next- 

 last Joints most often feebly transverse; pronotum as long as broad, 

 a little narrov<er than the elytra, forv.ardly not, or only in the ^ 

 feebly narrowing, with 5 rather robust punctures in each dorsal rov. , 

 and with 5 side-punotures, of "Ahich the two hindmost are placed al- 

 most parallel v.ith the dorsal rov. (especially in the Q); elytra as 

 long as pronotum, with rather robust and dense punctation; abdomen 

 with rather fine and dense punctation, its second and third free 

 dorsal joints at middle of the impression on base v ith a small angu- 

 late tip, which often is feeble, but still noticeable; the fore-tibiae 

 strongly spiniferous; first Joint of hind-tarsi distinctly longer than 

 the claw-joint. L. 7-8.5 mm. 



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