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 very much like the beetle, and is not infrequently found amons the sift- 

 ed material from forest ground, and in alluvium. It is reared by !ir. 

 Rosenber=i and Gand . '". Sohlick. 



2. 0. melanocephalus Gravh. 



(:travh. Won. 1C7; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 421; ^Jen. Spec. Staph. 

 295; Kraats Ins. D. II, 656; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 185; Muls. et Fey 

 Brevip. 1877, 15; CJanglb. Kaf. M. TI, 47G). 



Identified by proportionately narrow head, pronotal color, and 

 short elytra, 



Glistening; head and pronctuni polished; the head with exception 

 of the neck black, neck and pronotum vividly yellowish-red, occasi- 

 onally bro'.vnish at niddle; elytra yellowish-brown, or like the abdomen 

 pitch-brown, both finely haired; antennae, mouth-parts, and legs red- 

 dish-yellow. 



The head is much narrower than pronotum, oblong oval; antennal 

 third joint only a trifle longer than the second, the next-last hard- 

 ly transverse; pronotum as broad as elytra, posteriorly not narrowed, 

 longer than broad, the foremost puncture in the dorsal rows are placed 

 immediately at the anterior margin. Elytra are shorter than pronotum, 

 with scattered and robust punctation; abdomen with very fine, and espe- 

 cially posteriorly, scattered punctation. L. 5 mm. 



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In the o the fore-tarsi somewhat more strongly dilated than in the 

 p, and the abdominal sixth vential joint at tip less rounded than in 

 same. 



Distributed everywhere in North and Middle Europe, mostly on sandy 



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