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following with more scattered punctation. First Joint of hind tarsi is 



somewhat shorter than the claw-Joint. L. 3-3.5 mm. 



In forests under bark of deciduous and pinacious trees, which are 



attacked by bark-beetles, also at outflowing treesap; rare and somewhat 



local. 



3. Subgenus Dexio.sya Thorns. 



3. St. corticina Er. 



(Erlchs. Kaf. Mk. 5r. I, 351; (Jen. Spec. Staph. 153; Kraatz Ins. D. 

 II, 59; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 278; Muls. et Rey Br^vip. 1874, 406; Janglb. 

 Kaf. M. II, 88). 



Identified especially by the proportionately large smoothly convex 

 pronotum, which, together with the feeble, dull gloss and gray vestiture 

 of the body, produce in this species a likeness with an Oxypoda . 



Peddish-brown or brownish-red, dull or feeble pjloss, finely and rath- 

 er densely haired; the head and a baud before the reddish-yellow tip of 

 abdomen black or pitch-black; antennae, mouth-parts and le^s yellowish- 

 red. 



The body is narrow, broadest across pronotum; the head considerably 

 narrower than pronotum, with fine, isolated punctation, somewhat glist- 

 ening; antennae rather long, feebly thickened distally, their third joint 

 approximately as long as the second, the next-last about twice as broad 

 as long. Pronotum is back of middle as broad as elytra, more than 1^ times 

 as broad as long, mor^ tapering anteriorly than posteriorly, with rounded 

 sides and distinct, obtuee-angular hind corners, their posterior margin 

 inside these very flatly produced, dorsum smoothly convex, finely and dens- 

 ely punctated. Elytra somewhat longer than pronotum, with dense and dis- 



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