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ish-red; mouth-parts and legs yellowish red; coxae blackish-brown. 



Fig. 128. Abdominal four last ventral joints in Lathrobium elon - 

 gatum Linn. (5^ . 



Head as broad as pronotum, almost as broad as long with nearly par- 

 allel sides, the sides with rather dense and robust, the middle with 



sparse punctation; (Page 450) antennae rather 



robust, their middle joints scarcely longer than broadj pronotum a little 

 narrower than elytra, oblong, with parallel sides, robustly and rather 

 densely punctate, at middle line smooth; elytra distinctly longer than 

 pronotum, with rather robust and dense punctation, their posterior mar- 

 gin very finely marginate nearest to the duter hind corners (cf . fulvipenne ); 

 abdomen with dense and very fine punctation. L. 8-9 mm. 



In the. 5^' the abdominal fourth ventral joint at middle with a sugges- 

 tion of a groove, the fifth with a feeble, and the sixth with a rather 

 deep groove, which on the sixth joint ends in an angular incision in the 

 posterior margin, the groove on each side of its posterior part is bor- 

 dered with short black bristles (Fig. 123). In the ^ the seventh free 

 dorsal joint with a square incision, which is twice as long as broad. 



Distributed in North and Middle Europe; common everywhere in our 



country, especially in woods on damp ground, under leaves, also at the 



edges of brooks and lakes in alluvium. The larvae is found at Fur-Lake 



and reared (v;. Schlick, 7. 97). 



7. L. ^eminum Kr. 



(Kraatz Ins. D. II, 673; i-'.ul s. et Rey Brevip. 1878, 37; 7anglb. Kaf. 

 II. II, 511. - boreale Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 198). 



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