(Pase 418) 

 abdominal sixth ventral Joint at tip broadly emarginate, at middle 

 feebl;/ carinated. 



Eistributed in Middle and North Europe; it is here rare or very 

 rare, in alluvium at lakes and on damp ground. (Sk/rping and v.iia- 

 dum Lake south of Aalborg, Panders; jiibjergu'aard in South SJaelland; 



Fflnne) . 



49. Ph. nigritulus Jravh, 



(:iravh. Micr. 41; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 616; l:u1 s et Ray Brevlp. 

 1877, 411; :;an2lb. Kaf. K. II, 460. - aterrimus Jravh. Kicr. 41; Erichs. 

 Kaf. ^;k. Br. I, 476; Jen. Spec. Staph. 492; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 170). 



Small and slender, next after thermarum our smellet species, rec- 

 ognized especially by the number of punctures in the' punctate rows of 

 pronotum, and longer elytra than in the following species. 



Black, glistening; head and pronotum polished; elytra black or bro'jv- 

 ish, elytra and the abdomen finely haired; antennal base, and the mouth- 

 parts brownish or brownish yellow; legs reddish-yellow, tibiae hovever 

 often brownish. 



Head oblong, v.ith small eyes and almost tv.'icv, as long temples, in 

 thep a little narrower than pronotum, in theD^as broad as same; an- 

 tennae rather slender, their next-last joints feebly transverse; pro- 

 notum narrower than elytra, almost ij times as long as broad, anteri- 

 orly hardly narrowing, with 6 punctures in each dorsal row, and with 

 5 side-punctures; elytra somewhat longer than pronotum, however they 

 vary somewhat in lenght, with rather coarse and not dense punctation; 

 abdomen finely and rather densely punctated; fore-tarsi in both sexes 

 simple; first joint of hind tarsi short, shorter than the claw-joint. 



L. 4-£ mm. 



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