(Pase 416) 

 incision; the corners of the incision are prolonged v.ith a rounded off, 

 half membranous lobe. 



Distibuted in Europe and North Asia; here in Eenmark rather rare; 

 under leaves and moss in forests, also in alluvium, it hae a fev times 

 been found with Formica rufa . in and about the mounds af this (auth.)- 

 Erichson and Kraatz record that it effuses a peculiar sweetish odor. 

 46. Ph. splendiduluE iravh. 



(Jravh. Micr. 41; Srichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 470; :Jen. Spec. Staph. 

 478; Kraatz Ins. E. II, 608; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 17C; I.IuIb. et Rey 

 Brevip. 1877, 400; Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 459). 



A narrow and uniformly broad species, in appearance not unlike a 

 Xantholinus ; recognized especially by small eyes, form of the pro- 

 notum, and the numbers of punctures in its dorsal rows. 



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Pitch-black, glistening; head and pronotum polished; elytra most 

 often pitch-brown with reddish suture, elytra and abdomen very finely 

 haired; abdominal tip, posterior margins of abdominal joints, anten- 

 nae, mouth-parts, and legs reddish-yellovj. 



The head (Fig. 117) is oblong square, hardly as broad as pronotum; 

 eyes only half as long as temples; antennae rather short, their middle 

 and nest-last Joints transverse; pronotum oblong, slightly narrowing 

 posteriorly, with 5 fine punctures in each dorsal row, and with 5 side- 

 punctures; elytra as long as pronotum, with rather coarse and not den- 

 se punctation; fore-tarsi in both sexes simple; first ^oint of poste- 

 rior tarsi shorter than the claw-Joint. L. 5 mm. 



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