(Pa-e 429) 



in hollow trees and stubs, in wood-crumblings, also under bark, as a 



whole rare and local. 



?.. B. pilicornls Payk. 



(Payk. Mon. Car. App. 135; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 4S1; rjer. Spec. 

 Staph. 296; Kraatz Ins. C. II, 661; Thorns. Skand. Col. 'I, 187; r/uls. 

 et Rey Br^vip, 1877, 25; v:Janglb. Kaf. 11. II, 473). 



It :e separated from the closely allied, preceding species by the 

 color, punctation of the temples, and the sculpture of the elytra. 



Black, head and pronotum polished, elytra and abdomen glistening, 

 sparsely haired; humeri, and often also the sutures and margins of 

 the elytra, also tip of abdomen, and posterior mar^^ins of its fore- 

 most Joints, also antennae, mouth-parts, and legs brownish, yellov*- 

 ish-red. 



Head somewhat broader than pronotum, posteriorly less rounded-off 

 than in aff inis , temples v.ith 10-12 somewhat irregular large punctures; 

 antennal third Joint scarcely longer than the second; pronotum short- 

 er than in aff inis , and somewhat less convex; elytra hardly punctated, 

 but their surface with coriarious sculpture, and occasionally with a 

 suggestion of three rows of widely spaced, larger punctures: one at the 

 suture, one at middle, and one along the sides. Punctation of abdomen 

 same as in the preceding species. L. ^^-7 mm, 



(Page 430) 



Distributed in North and Middle Europe. In Denmark heretofore on- 

 ly one speciiren has been found, in Dronninglund Storskov in Vendsyssel 

 under the bark of alder (E. L^vendal 1<". 6. 18f5). In Sweden and Nor- 

 way it is rare. 



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