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 brown or brownish-red. Elytra rarely with a yellow spot on the outer hind 



corners. 



*) 

 Head narrower than pronotum, rounded, with a narrow, almost "knob- 

 formed" neck, which hardly is a l/3 as broad as the head, on sides with 

 rather fine and dense, at middle more sparse punctatlon; antennae long 

 and slender, and feebly thinned outwardly, all their joints longer than 

 broad; pronotum much narrower than elytra, a little longer than broad, 

 with almost parallel sides and rounded off corners, with rather robust 

 and dense punctation, and with smooth middle-line; elytra distinctly 

 longer than pronotum, finely and rather densely punctate; abdomen with 

 extremely fine and dense punctation. L. 7-8 mm. 



In the o the abdominal sixth free dorsal joint is elongated ending 

 in a fine point; in the ^ the sixth ventral joint with a narrow angular 

 incision, and the two preceding joints at middle flatly grooved. 



Distributed in Europe and not rare in this country, on damp ground, 

 sometimes quite numerous in alluvium and under stones at water edges. 

 Most likely the larvae can be found at the same places as the beetle. 



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 3. L. terminatum Jravh. 



(iJravh. Uicr. 55: Kraatz Ins. D. II, 679; Thoms. Skand. Col. II, 200; 

 Muls et Rey Brevip. 1878, 71; Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 509. - quadratum var. 

 b. Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 5C7; Jen. Spec. Staph. 5S5). 



Smaller and narrower than quadratum , to which it is very closely al- 

 lied, and of which it sometimes is treated as a variety, but however, 

 besides by the difference in size, it can ordinarily be separated in that, 



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 *) or bud-shaped -. 



