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(Subdivision Xantholinina s. str.) 



76. -ienus Xantholinus Serv. 



(Serv. Sncycl. Meth. X, 1825, 475; Erichs. ien. Spec. Staph. 306; 

 KraatE Ins. D. II, 629; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 189-^- ^aurypterus 187-f- 

 Nudobiue 186; J/iuls. et Rey Brevip. 1877, 41, 36, 83; Janglb. Kaf. i;. 

 II. 477-J- Sulissus 474-f-Nudobijas 475). 



The body is elongate, narrow and of uniform breadth, often some- 

 what fist; head porrect, large, oblong, as broad a?, or broader than 

 pronotum, with snail, or very small eyes, and long, sometimes planate 

 temples, posteriorly vith strongly neck-formed constriction; the neck 

 very narrow; anterior margin of forehead at middle, between two round 

 processes, tooth-formed prominent, its surface anteriorly at middle 

 with two sharp, almost parallel grooves, most often also with two feeb- 

 ler, oblique side-grooves; antennae rather short, inserted close togeth- 

 er, and much closer to each other than to the eyes, after the long, 

 scape-formed first joint geniculate, their next-last Joints transverse; 

 last joint of maxillary palpi tapering, a little thinner than the next- 

 last, but not subulate. 



Pronotum is oblong, about as broad as elytra, most often narrowing 

 posteriorly, its sides finely marginate, and thH margin visible in lon- 

 jer or shorter distance, either to behind anterior corner, or only to 

 behind middle, for the rest anteriorly bent in on the ventral side, 

 the surface, with a single exception ( X. fulgidus l, v.ith two punctate 

 rows along the dorsum, and on sides either with an anteriorly curvate 

 punctate row, or with scattered punctation. Elytra about as long as 

 pronotum, and with flat sutural margins, of which the one, v^hen closed, 



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