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7. Elytra with scattered punctation, red, L. 12-14 mm 



£• X« .'glabra tu 5 Jravh . 



Elytra with three rather regularly punctated rows, and a few, 



scattered punctures between these, brownish red or pitch-brown. 

 Species much smaller. L. 7 mm 7. X. ^laber Nordm. 



8. Head posteriorly distinctly broadened, feebly ovate 9. 



Head posteriorly hardly broadened, oblonj;. L. 7-9 mm 



10. X. linearis Oliv. and lop.^iventris Heer 



9. Pronotum red, or its posterior part brownish. L. 8-11 mm 



8. X. tricolor Fabr. 



Pronotum rather unicolorous pitch-brown with feeble metal reflect- 

 ion. L. 7-lC mm 9. X. laevi:'atu£ Jac. 



1. Subgenus Eulissus Mannh. 



( jauropterus Thorns.). 



1. X. fulgidus Fabr. 



(Fabr. Mant. Ins. I, 220; £richs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 423; CJen Spec. 

 Staph. 319; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 642; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 186; ii'uls. 

 et Rey Bre'vip. 1877, 33; Janglb. Kaf. ¥.. II, 475). 



In relation to the follov;inj species of the ^enus easily identifi- 

 ed by; that pronotum is without punctate rows at middle of dorsum. 



Deeply black, strongly glistening, pronotum polished; elytra red; 

 Antennal outer part and legs pitch-brown, maxillary palpi, knees, and 

 tarsi lighter. (Page 432) - 



The head is large, broader than pronotum, longer than broad, straight- 

 sided, with almost rectangular temple-corners, scattered punctation 



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