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 abdomen feebly tapering, the transversal grooves with indistinct, elwhere 

 - and especially posteriorly - with rather robust, but not dense puncta- 

 tion. L. 5-8 nun. 



In the C? the margin of the sixth free dorsal joint of abdomen slightly 

 incurved, and smooth. 



It varies considerably in size; in large, robustly developed animals 

 the color of elytra, antennae and legs is often darker than in the small. 



At carrion and rotting offal of animals and plants; distributed, but 



not frequent. 



2. A. brevipennis O ravh* 



(3ravh. Mon. 169; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 356, Jen. Spec. Staph. 163; 

 Kraatz Ins. D. II, 92; Thorns. Skand. Ool. II, 248; Muls et Rey Brevip. 

 1874. 28; Gaoglb. Kaf. M. II, 31). 



"'ithin the subgenus easily identified by the color, and by the dense- 

 ly haired, dully glistening elytra. 



Fusiform, black, glistening, finely haired; elytra rather dull; anten- 

 nal .base and the legs darkly brownish-red, femora often pitch-brown. 



The head with fine and scattered punctation; antennae rather slender, 

 slightly thickened distally, their third joint longer than the second, the 

 next-last only ik times as broad as long. Pronotum is posteriorly as broad 

 as elytra, li times as broad as long, roundly narrowing antei lot ij<, finely 

 and rather densely punctated, without side-brushes; elytra as lonj; as pro- 

 notum, with very dense scabrous punctation, and densely grayish haired, 

 due to this dully grayish glistening, their posterior margin inside the 

 outer corners not or scarcely noticeably tnourved. Abdomen is more or less 

 tapering, rather robustly, but not densely punctated. L. 4-6 mm. 



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