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In appearance very much like a medium sized Lathrobium ; particularly 

 distlnguisable by the flat form of the body, and by the color of elytra. 



Brown or pitch-brown, glistening; pronotum with very sparse, abdomen 

 with somewhat denser, very fine hair; head and pronotum often brownish- 

 black, occasionally reddish-brown; elytra brownish-yellow, at base nar- 

 rowly, or more widely dark; abdominal tip reddish-brown; antennae, mouth- 

 parts, and legs yellowish-red. 



The head posteriorly as broad as pronotum, from the middle forwardly 

 strongly narrowing, with rather pronounced hind-corners, and with small 

 eyes, on sides with sparse and rather robust, at middle with simple punc- 

 tation; antennae long and slender, all Joints at least twice as long as 

 broad; pronotum anteriorly as broad as elytra with almost straight fore- 

 margin, and prominent, rather sharp fore-corners, posteriorly narrowing 

 and with rounded off hind corners, at middle smooth, the middle-line oc- 

 casionally finely grooved, on each side of the smooth middle with a part- 

 ly double-rowed, of many fine punctures consisting punctate row, poste- 

 riorly at side of this row with a short smooth plane, otherwheres on si- 

 des finely and not densely punctate; elytra scarcely longer than pronotum, 

 with scattered and rather fine, here and there row-formed punctation; 

 abdomen with fine and rather dense punctation, its sides slightly round- 

 ed. L* 7 mm. 



In the (5^ the abdominal sixth ventral joint at tip broadly, obtusely 

 angularly emarginate. 



Distributed in Middle Europe, very rare in this country. On marshy 



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