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 Erlchs. Sen. Spec. Staph. 61; Kraatz Ins. T). II, 97). 



More than others of our Aleochara this species is distinguished by 

 blender antennae and very long legs; namely the hind-tarsi are peculiarly 

 elongated and thin. 



Pitch-black or pitch-broun, glistening, grayish-yellow haired; elytra 

 pitch-brown or chestnut brovn; posterior margins of the ventral abdominal 

 joints most often reddish-brown; antennal base, maxillary palpi, and legs 

 brownish-red. - In teneral animels the brownish color is more predominat- 

 ing and lighter. 



The body is rather narrow and of equal breadth; the head proportio- 

 nately large, somewhat narrower than pronotum, finely and sparsely punc- 

 tated; eyes rather small, ovel; antennae long slender, only feebly thick- 

 ened distally, their second and third joints elongate, nearly of same 

 length, the next-lf/st ones hardly transverse; pronotum about as broad as 

 elytra, 1^ times as broad as long with almost smoothly rounded sides, 

 slightly convex, rather finely and densely punctated; elytca either a 

 little shorter than pronotum ( spsdicea Er.) or tis long as same (^rocera 

 Er.) rather densely and robustly scabrously punctated with reclinate -(Page 30) 

 hair vestiture, their posterior margin Inside the outer corners distinct- 

 ly tBoarved ; abdomen rather evenly broad, the transversal grooves with 

 rather dense and robust, elsewhere with fine and scattered punctatlon; 

 legs very long and slender; hind tarsi fully as long as hind tibiae, their 

 first joint as long as the following three joints together. L. 4-F.? mm. 



This peculler species, which at first glance recalls an Ocalea . Is 

 according to latest observations Loth from here (E. Fosenberg, author, et.al.) 



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