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 "idely distributed in Middle and North Europe. Not rare in this coun- 

 try, at manure, carrion, under rotting plants, leaves and moss. 



9. A. lanuginosa ^ravh. 



(Jravh. Micr. 94; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 356; len. Spec. Staph. 158; 

 Kraat? Ins. E. II, 93; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 252; Muls. et Pey Brevip. 

 1374, 110; ianglb. Kaf. M. II, 36). 



Easily identified especially by thr color, the rough hair vestiture 

 of head and pronotum, and the punctation of abdomen. 



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Glistening black; forebody with rather dense and long, more or less 

 distinctly rough, hair* . atxiomen sparsely prostrate-haired; elytral pos- 

 terior margin at middle most often reddish; legs pitch-black or pitch-brown 

 with reddish knees and tarsi. 



The body is rather of even breadth and especially in larger animals 

 somewhat thick; head and pronotum rather coarsely and densely, but not 

 deeply punctated; antennae thickened distally, their third Joint some- 

 what longer than the second, the middle and next-last ones transverse, 

 about l| times as broad as long, pronotum :s posteriorly 'hardly as broad, 

 as elytra, 1^ times as broad as long, narrowing anteriorly with rounded 

 sides, its vestiture transverse-obllquely outwardly directed, and most 

 often distinctly outstanding or rough; elytra as long as piConotum, rather 

 robustly and densely punctated, and the vestiture as in this transverse- 

 obllquely outwardly directed, biit less rough, their posterior margin in- 

 side the outer corners distinctly produced; abdomen feebly narrowing pos- 

 teriorly, the deep transversal grooves of the foremost dorsal Joints coarae- 



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