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 87. Antennal next-last joints more than twice as broad as long. L. 2-2. F. 



mm 26. 0. ?nnuloris Monnh. 



Antennal next-last joints only ih tines as broad as long. L. 2 mm: 

 27. 0. soror Thorns. 



1. Subgenus Oxypoda s. str. Muls. et Key. 



1. ruf icornis 'Jyllh. 



('Jyllh. Ins. Suec. II, 422; Erichs. 3en. Spec. Staph. 142; Kraatz Ins. 



D. II, 161; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 17; finis, et Rey Brevip. 1874, 230.- 



spectabllis Mark. Jsru!. Zeitschr. V, 217; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 162; Janglb. 



Kaf. M. II, 61). 



A handsome, considerable species, largest of the genus, easily identi- 

 fied by the size, form and color. 



Rather evenly broad, pitch-black or pitch-brov.n, very finely gray-hair- 

 ed, modulated, silky shine; pronotal side-margins most often yellowish- 

 brov*n; elytra, tip of abdomen, and posterior margins of its joints brown- 

 ish-yellow; base of elytra around scutellum often, more rarely also their 

 poFterlor corners dark; antennae rust-red or pitch-black, their base, and 

 the legs reddish-yellow. 



The head is much narrower then pronotutc, finely and densely punctated; 

 antennae slender and much longer than the head and pronotum together, their 

 third joint longer than the second, the fourth nearly twice as long as broad, 

 the next-last ones at least as long es broad, distal joint long-tapering. 

 Pronotum slightly and smoothly convex, posteriorly hardly nurrower than 

 elytra, 1'/^ times as broad as long, feebly, roundly narrowing anteriorly, 

 densely and very finely punctated with a small transversal fovea before 



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