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 what resemles the Xantholinus species, and like these curls itself 

 halfway up. Erichson and Kraatz describo our species under Philonthus . 



1. g. zentholoma 5rach. 



(Jravh. Won. 41; Erichs. vJen. Spec. Staph. 452; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 

 594; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 152; Muls et Fey Brevip. 1877, 427; Jan^lb. 

 Kaf, M. II, 463). 



Easily identified by the large, pitlike punctures of pronotum and 

 head, and by the very densely punctated elytra. 



Black; head and pronotum polished; pronotum often brownish irides- 

 cent; elytra dull, abdomen feebly glistening; elytra with dense, pros- 

 trate and smooth hair, abdomen less densely haired, but with two, more 

 densely haired stripes at middle; the deflected sides of elytra brow- 

 ish yellow; legs reddish-brown. Occasionally the pronotal sides, elytra, 

 and scutellum brownish-red, and abdomen pitch-brown with brownish-red 

 margins and spots, (v. varle.:;atus E r. ) . 



The head is oblong-square with rounded off temple-corners (Fi^.118), 

 in the P and less robust ouas broad as pronotum, in more robust Ou re- 

 markably large and considerably broader than pronotum, between the eyes 

 with two large pitlike punctures and a short longitudinal impression 



between these, (Page 421) at the eyes 



and on the temples with rather dense, and especially in large<DO coarse 

 punctation; antennae rather robust, their next-last joints however 

 not strongly transverse. Pronotum is much narrower than the elytra, 

 about as long as broad, posteriorly narrowing, in large UOvery strong- 

 ly narrowing, its dorsum with two longitudinal punctate rows, eech 



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