(Pa.je 408) 

 mon at manure, rotting plants and carrion, on heathland hills under 

 lichen and moss, on beaches under seav^eed. 



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32. Ph. varians Payk. 



(Payk. Mon. Staph. 45; Erichs. ;en. Spec. Staph. 470; Kraatz Ins. 

 E. II, e02; Muls. et Rey Br^vip. 1877, 331; ianglb. Kaf. M. II, 454. 

 - opacus ryllh. Ins. Suec. II, 340; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 465; 

 Thorns. Skand. Ool. II, 164). 



A rather narrow, fusiform specios with remarkable small head, 

 rather small eyes, light colored fore-coxae, and elytra with some- 

 what dully shining, changeable color. 



Black, head and pronotum polished; elytra with dense blackish- 

 brown hair, thereby with somewhat dull shine, most often with a more 

 or less distinct, from humerus downward and obliquely inwardly direct- 

 ed brownish-red longitudinal spot, which however not infrequently dis- 

 appears entirely, in such case the elytra are unicolorous black (var. 

 unicolor Steph.); abdomen glistening, finely haired; fore-coxae, es- 

 pecially on inner side, yellowish-brown; legs pitch-brown. 



The head is remarkably small, much narrower than pronotum, nar- 

 rowly oval, with rather small eyes, and a little longer temples; an- 

 tennae slender, their miadle- and next-last joints longer than broad; 

 pronotum anteriorly rather strongly narrovang, as long as broad, with 

 5 punctures in each dorsal row, and with 5 side-punctures, of which 

 two in line are parallel with the dorsal row; elytra densely and rath- 

 er finely punctate, abdomen rather finely, and to the fore densely, 

 toward the tip lees densely punctate; fore-tarsi in the O feebly, in 



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