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 all our species. 



Pltch-bleck. very finely and rather densely gray-haired, somewhat 

 glistening; pronotum, elytra, and abdominal tip in tensral animals brow,n- 

 ish; antennae pitch-black or brown with reddish-brown or yellowish-red 

 base; legs reddish-yellow, rarely darkly shaded. 



Body all over with very fine, the head with dense, pronotum and el- 

 ytra very dense, abdomen extremely dense punctation. The head small; 



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 antennae nearly as long as forebody, heavy, strongly and smoothly thick- 

 ened distally, their third joint a little shorter than the second or as 

 long as this, the following (4-10) gradually thickened, about as long as 

 broad. The distal Joint, especially in the 3^ , very large, on one side 

 with set off impression, but tapering, pronotum scarcely as broad as el- 

 lytre, about ''/^ broader than long, narrowing anteriorly with slightly round- 

 ed sides and obtuse angular hind corners, dorsum slightly convex with a 

 feeble fovea before scutellum; elytra //^ longer than pronotum, its poste- 

 rior margin inside the outer corners rather strongly tnoarved; ihe outer 

 third of abdomen tapering and here provided with r^any outstanding bristles. 

 L. ?-4 mm. 



Distributed all over and not rare on damp ground under the plant-cover; 

 In the spring often very numerous in olluvium, at lake shores, under leaves 

 at forest waters, and like places. 



8. 0. obscura Kr. 



(Kreatz Ins. D. II, 1057; Janglb. K&'f. M. II, 64) 



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