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 le scabrous punctation; abdomen equally broad and as broad as forebody, 

 the foremost dorsal joints with rather fine and dense, the last ones with 

 more isolated punctation. L. 2.5-3 mm. 



It lives mainly indoors, especially in old belfteries, mills, wood-sheds, 

 cellars and barns in offal, also in beehives, which are not kept clean, 

 in hollov; trees with ants ( Lasius f uli.i^inosus ) ; more rarely found on for- 

 est :^round under leaves and in old bunches of hay (author). Distributed, 

 but as a whole rare. 



5. 5enus Thiasophila Kr. 



(Kraatz Ins. D. II, 69; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 245; Muls. et Pey Brp'- 

 vip. 1874, 383; CJanglb. Kaf. M. II, 86). 



Body rather plump and of equal breadth, posteriorly a little tapering, 

 slightly convex, finely haired; the head much narrower than pronotum, not 

 constricted behind; eyes not large, nor protruding, temples and genae mar- 

 gined; antennae rather short and robust, their outer joints (4-lC) not 

 barbated, very compact, a peculiarity which especially seems developed 

 in staphylinids , which like the species of this genus are rayrmeoophile 

 and firm mound-dwellers. Maxillary palpi rather slander, their last joint 

 subulate and much shorter than the next-last; the three joints of labial 

 palpi about of same length; the tongue narrow and cleft (Fig. 16). 



Pronotum at least as broad as elytra, its posterior margin on each si- 

 de distinctly produced and posterior corners thereby prominent, almost 

 rectangular; elytra very little longer than pronotum, their posterior mar- 

 gin inside the outer corners distinctly ^nourved, abdomen of equal breadth 

 with forebody, only tapering frem the last two or three joints; its first 



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