(Paje 50) 



Rather fusiform and flatly convex. Pitch-black or pitcii-brown, finely 

 haired, with feeble silky gloss, pronotal sides and posterior margins of 

 abdominal joints brownish-red, elytra livid yellov;, around scutellurn, at 

 suture, sides and hind corners obliterated darkly shaded or dark, antennal 

 base, mouth-parts and legs reddish yellov;. 



The several parte of the body are punctated as In ruf icorni s; anten- 

 nae slender and rather long, their third joint fully as long as the second, 

 the fourth and fifth longer than broad, the next-last ones about as broad 

 as long, distal joint long-tapering. Pronotum is posteriorly not fully as 

 broad as elytra, anteriorly distinctly narrowing, dorsum flatly convex with 

 a more or less distinct fovea before scutellurn, and often a feeble groove 

 in the middle-line; elytra about '/^longer than pronotum, somewhat flat, 

 feebly broadened posteriorly, their posterior margin inside the outer cor- 

 ners strongly incurved; tiLdomen smoothly tapering, more silky glistening 

 than the fore-tody; hind tarsi a little shorter than tibiae, their first 

 Joint as long as the three following joints together. L. 4-5 mm. 



Distributed under leaves, in leaf mould, at rotting plant-v.'aste , and 



in fungi. 



3. 0. lonfTJpes Muls. et Rey. 



(MuIb. et hey Op. Ent, XII, 1861, 102; Brevip. 1874. 234; Janglb. Kaf. 

 I'l. II, €?.. - metatarsalis Thorns. Skand. Col. IX, 246). 



Recogni zeable especially by the peculiarly long,, fine hind torsi, which 

 are longer then tibiae; otherwise much like the following species. 



Father narrowly fusiform. Pitch-black or black, finely silken haired, 

 feebly glistening; elytra brownish-yellow v<ith darkly shaded sides and a 



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