(Paije 412) 

 rather dense, toward the tip with more scattered punctation; fjrst 

 Joint of hind tarsi longer than the claw-joint. L. 7-9 mm. 



In the O the fore-tarsi are strongly dilated, and the abdominal 

 sixth ventral joint at tip with a rather deep, angulate incision. 



Distributed in Europe, but somewt)at local, as a whole rather rare 



in Denmark, more frequent in the islands than in the peninsula; in 



alluvium at lake shores, under leaves on damp forest ground, and more 



rarely at rotten fun^i. The larva is found in numbers, among other 



places, at Eamhussoen at Copenhagen, in alluvium, and reared. ('^. 



Schlick. 21. 7. 1895). 



38. Ph. ni>;rita Iravh. 



((iravh. lion. 68; Erichs. Kaf. i,;k. Br. I, 471; ^Jen. Spec. Staph. 

 481; Kraatz Ins. L. II, 611; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 165; LIuls. et 

 Key Br^vip. 1877, 352; ^ianglb. Kaf. K. 456). 



A little smaller than fumarius , to which it is very closely al- 

 lied, but from which it however is easily separated by the follow- 

 ing characters: 



Elytra and the legs are entirely black, - or the tarsi alone 

 brownish; pronotum a little longer than broad, narrower than in fu- 

 marius , its punctation rather fine; elytra and abdomen black-haired, 

 with 8 little finer and denser punctation than in the preceding spe- 

 cies. L. 7-8 mm. 



Rare and local, more frequent in the islands than in Jutland; 

 on damp marsh- or meadow-ground in moss, in alluvium at water edges 

 and at root of plants, on damp forest ground under leaves (Aalborg, 



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