(Pa^e 41C) 



34. Ph. discoideus Iravh. 



(Jravh. Micr. 38; Erichs. Kaf. Uk. Br. I, 469; Jen. Spac. Staph. 

 474; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 505; Thorns. Skand. Gol . II, 160; Liuls. et 

 Fey Br^vip. 1877, 341; (Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 455). 



Easily identified by the rather short first joint of hind tarsi, 

 the color of elytra, and form of the head. 



Black, pitch-black or pitch-brown, glistening; head and pronotuo? 

 polished; elytra and abdomen with greyish-brown hair, elytral suture, 

 and sides, also posterior margins of the abdominal ventral Joints red- 

 dish or brownish yellow; antennae, moath-parts and legs reddish-yellow. 



Of rather even breadth;' the head in o almost square with nearly 

 rectangular temple-corners, as broad as pronotum, in the Q a little 

 narrower. The eyes as long as teraplec;. antennae rather short, their 

 middle and next-last joints transverse; pronotum as long as broad, 

 nearly as broad as elytra, anteriorly hardly narrowing, with 5 punc- 

 tures in each dorsal rov.-, and with 5 side-punctures, of which t«o in 

 line are obli:iue to the dorsal row; elytra with rather robust and den- 

 se,, the abdomen with fine and less dense punctation; first Joint of 

 hind tarsi a little longer than the claw-Joint, but a little shorter 

 than the three middls joints together. L. 5 mm. 



In the o the fore-tarsi are dilated and the abdominal sixth ven- 

 tral joint at tip slightly pmarginate. 



Distributed in all continents; here it is rare or local; mainly 

 found at manure-benches, in compost, in waste at hothouses, and baker- 

 ies and like places; rarely in elluvium (v. Madum S^ G. 1891, Auth.) 



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