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Legs reddish or yellowish brown. Species smaller. L. 6-7 mm 



9. L. fovulum Steph. 



11. Legs blackish-brown with lighter knees and tarsi. L. 6 mm 



10. L. filiforme iravh. 



Le^s reddish-yellow. Species small, very narrow, L. 4-5 mm 



11. L. lon^ulum Jravh. 



12. Abdomen rather glistening, densely and very finely punctate. Species 



very narrow. L. 4.5-5 mm 12. L. dilutum Er. 



Abdomen dull, extremely densely and finely punctate, darker than the 

 thorax. Species broader. L. 5-6 mm 13. L. pallidum Nordm. 



1. Subgenus Lobrathium I^uls. et Rey. 



1. L. multipunctum CJravh. 



(Jravh. !.!lcr. 52; Erichs. Kaf. ^:k. Br. I, 506; (Jen. Spec. Staph. 591; 

 Kraatz Ins. C. II, 676; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 200. T.iuls et Fey Brevip. 187§ , 

 82; Tanglb. Kaf. M. II, 506). 



Distinguished, and easily identified by the elytral rowed punctation 

 and double side-marginal borders (or ridges). 



Black, pitch-brown or reddish-brown, glistening; elytra very sparse- 

 ly, abdomen more densely haired; elytra brownish-red, often darker at 

 base; abdominal tip reddish-brown or yellowish-brown; antennae and mouth- 

 parts rust-red, legs yellowish-red. 



Body slender and cylindrical; head a little broader than pronotum, 

 rounded-square, with coarse and dense, at middle rather sijarse punctation; 



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 antennae slender; pronotum oblong with parallel sides, a little narrower 



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