(Paij« 411) 

 ventral joint with rather deep angulate incision. 



Distributed in most continents, but here in Denmark rare or lo- 

 cal; in ditches and clay-pits on damp ground under plants, at lake 

 shores in alluvium, under stones and like places. Ihe variety with 

 red or half red elytra ( inguinatus Steph., rubidus E r.) is in this 

 country seemingly not rarer than the typical form with blackish- 

 green elytra. Both forms are ordinarily found together. 



4th Series: Pronotum with 6 Punctures in each Dorsal Row. 



37. Ph. fumarius iravh. 



(Jravh. Iv^on. 67; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 472; ien. Spec. Staph. 

 482; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 610; Thorns. Skand. Col. IX, IhA; iluls. e't Pey 

 Brevip. 1877, 354; Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 456). 



A rather large, slender fusiform species, among the closest al- 

 lied within 4th series, recognized mainly by the color of elytra and 

 the legs. (Page 412) 



Black, glistening; head and pronotum polished, pronotum in certain 

 directions with a fine, silky iridescent reflection; elytra darkly 

 greenish with bronze-lustre, these and abdomen with fine gray hair, 

 the le.^'s reddish-yellow with black coxae. 



Head oval, considerably narrower than pronotum; eyes nearly as 

 long as temples; antennae slender, all joints longer than broad; pro- 

 notum posteriorly only a little narrower than elytra, scarcely as 

 long as broad, narrowing anteriorly, with 6 punctures in each dorsal 

 row, and with 5 side-punctures, of which two in line are almost par- 

 allel 'v'ith the dorsal row; elytra a little longer than pronotum, with 

 rather fine and dense punctation, audomen anteriorly with fine and 



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