(Pa^e 412) 



Banders, Aarhus; Odense; Sori/, Copenhagen, Hillerj^d and several other 



places). Distributed in the ^jreater part of Europe. 



39. Ph. micans Jravh. 



(CJravh. Micr. 25; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. br. I, 473; 5en. Spec. Staph. 

 484; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 612; Ihoms. Skand. Col. II, 165; MuIe. et Rey 

 Bre'vlp. 1877, 359; Janjlb. Kaf. Id. II, 457). 



Narrowly fusiform, recognizeable, inter alia, by dull, proportio- 

 nately long elytra, and by color of the legs. 



Black, head and pronoturr. polished with silky iridescent reflect- 

 ion; elytra and abdomen with fine and rather dense gray hair, dull 



or dully shining; - (Page 413) - the antennal first joint 



and mouth-parte most often brownish; legs except the coxae reddish- 

 yell ovi, sometimes brownish-yellow. 



Head oval, considerably narrower than pronotura; eyes a little 

 shorter than temples; antennae slender, their next-last joints as 

 long as broad or a little longer; pronotum posteriorly hardly as 

 broad as elytra, as long as broad, anteriorly narrowing, with 6 punc- 

 tures in each dorsal row; elytra a little longer than pronotum, den- 

 sely and very finely punctate, the ground surface furthermore very 

 finely shagreened, due to this and the gray vestiture, elytra dull; 

 the entire abdomen with especially fine, anteriorly also especially 

 dense, punctation, the hindmost joints less densely punctate; first 

 joint of hind tarsi longer than the claw-joint. L. 6-7 tnm. 



In the O the fore-tarsi are rather strongly dilated, and the ab- 

 dominal sixth ventral joint at tip with obtuse angular emarginiition. 



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