(Pa^'e 414) 



Very closely allied to fulvires . occasionally a little larger 

 and broader; like ssme black with (ordinarily) yellowish-red elytia 

 and reddish-yellow legs; for the rest reco^'nizable by the follov.ins 

 deviations: 



Antennae slender, longer and slenderer than in fulvipes , their 

 middle and next-last joints a little longer than broad, only their 

 first joint, rarely also the second reddish-yellow; pronotum feebly 

 iridescent; elytra with especially fine and dense punctation, dully- 

 glistening, most often yellowish-red, but sometimes entirely, or at 

 least anteriorly black; abdomen with very dense and fine punctation, 

 abdomen and elytra with denser and finer punctation than in fulvipes ; 

 legs reddish-yellow, in the form vlth black elytra, brownish (var. 

 varipes Muls.)» L. 6-7 mm. 



Distributed in Middle Europe. On beaches under seaweed and stones, 

 in the inner Europe also at salt lakes. In this country rare and local; 

 in the southern part of Sjaelland and in Lolland-Falster here and thepe 

 at the coasts at times numerous, it is also found at Copehagen, Boserup, 

 and Aarhus. 



5th Series: Pronotum with 8-12 Punctures in each Dorsal Fow. 



43. Ph. puella Nordm. 



(Nordm. Symb. 101; Erichs. Kaf. Ivlk. Br. I, 472; len. Spec. Staph. 

 4S3; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 620; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 162; Muls. et ^ey 

 Brevip. 1877, 374; Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 458). 



In appearance not unlike carbonarius . however somewhat smaller, 



and is for that matter easily identified by the punctation of head 



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