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 blackish spot around scutellum and along the suture; pronotal sides, tip 

 of abdomen end posterior margins of its Joints, also antennal base most 

 often brownish-red; legs reddish yellov;. 



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 Forebody very finely and densely punctated; antennae slender, their 

 third joint longer than the second, the fourth a little longer than broad, 

 the next-last ones as long as broad, distal Joint long. Pronotum posteri- 

 orly about as broad as elytra, roundly narrowing anteriorly with obtuse 

 angular hind corners, slightly convex, with a feeble fovea before scutel- 

 lum, and sometimes a fine longitudinal groove in middle-line; elytra I'/s 

 times as long as pronotum, their posterior margin inside the outer corners 



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strongly inoUrved; abdomen in the o strongly, in the o more feebly taper- 

 ing, silky glistening and to the tip extremely finely and densely punctated. 

 Hind tarsi are at least as long as tibiae, as a rule a little longer than 

 these, very fine, their middle joint so elongated that the long first joint 

 Is only as long as the two following joints together. L. 4-4.5 mm. 



From following species, vittata , v.hich it in form, color, punctation 

 and vestiture strongly resembles, it is separated especially by, ihat the 

 antennal fourth and fifth joints are longer than in this species, that el- 

 ytra are shorter, and that the hind-tarsi on account of the more elongated 

 middle joints are considerably longer. 



"'idely distributed, but rare. It is parasitic in diverse aniranl's 

 underground abodes, can occur in hollow trees with Lasius f uli.jinosus , 

 but Is however especially found in mole galleries, and in humblebeo nests 

 (Aalborj;, Odense, vicinity of Copt?nhagan, Hillerod, and other places). 



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