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Ihe head is rounded-square, in the p narrower than pronotum, in 

 the <:?' about as broad as pronotum; eyes shorter than temples; antennae 

 rather slender, their next-last joints scarcely transverse; pronotum 

 somewhat narrower than elytra, anteriorly scarcely narrovjing, as lonj 

 as broad, with 5 punctures in each dorsal row, and v.ith 5 side-punc- 

 tures, of v.hich the tv.o hindmost in lin* are obli-^ue to the dorsal 

 row; elytra as long as pronotum, vith rather fire and dense punctatlon ; 

 more dense than in ebenius and concinnus ; fore-tibiae not spiniferous 

 fore-tarsi in both sexes strongly dilated, first Joint of hind-tarsi 

 elongated and much longer than the claw-joint. L. 7-8 mm. 



In the o the abdominal sixth ventral joint v.ith a deep; acute in- 

 cision at tip; fore-tarsi are somewhat more strongly dilated than in 



EistributeJ in Europe; in this country rather rare and local, on 



damp ground, .especially at the beach in alluvium. (Aalbaek; at Vejl^- 



bugt and several places in south bjaelland; Nyk^bing F. , iedser. 



Knuthenborg) . 



28. Ph. debilis CJravh. 



(Jravh. Micr. 3E; Erichs. Kaf. Kk. Br. I, 467; Jen. Spec. Staph. 

 47?!; Kraatz Ins. C. II, 604; Thorns. Skand. Col. IX, 149; Muls. at Pey 

 Er(^vip. 1877, 317; Janglb. Kaf. K. II, 453). 



A smaller species of rather even breadth, most often with brownish 

 elytra and light colored le^s, furthermore recognizable by rather small 

 eyes and sparsely spiniferous fore-tibiae. 



Black, head and pronotum polished, the latter occasionally brown- 



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