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Particularly closely allied to longiuqcula . to v<hich it in regard to 

 strength and construction of antennae, size of body, punctation, vesti- 

 ture, and coloring is very similar, and therefore easily confused. By 

 comparison of pronounced and fully mature specimens of both species it 

 shows that . obscura is of darker color, more black, that the legs most 

 often are reddish-brown, that the body is more evenly broad, antennal 

 distal joint a little shorier, the head a little larger, and especially 

 that pronotum is distinctly broader, as broad as the elytra, and these 

 only as long as pronotun, decidedly shorter than in Icn ;iu6cula ; abdomen 

 posteriorly less tapering. Aside from the heavier and longer antennae, 

 it has in form, and color much similarity v/ith the following species, 

 funebri s Kr. 



Distributed throughout Middle and North Europe, especially on boggy, 

 cold woodland ground, but very rare. A few specimens which I have found 

 in the forests at Hillerja'd, and which I at first supposed to be funabris 

 Kr., are quite surely obscura Kr. The antennae in these specimens are 

 hardly as robust as in lon:,'iusc'ila , but more robust than in the follov.- 

 ing species. 



3. Subgenus Podoxya Muls. et Rey. 

 9. 0. funebris Kr. 



(Kraatz Ins. T. II, If 6; ienglb. Kaf. K. II, 64). 



'Within the subgenus Identified by size, form and color. 



Father slender and evenly broed. Black, finely and rather densely gray- 

 haired and silky glistening, elytra occasionally urownlsh-bleck ; antennae 

 black, their first joints, and the legs reddish-brown or pitch-brown. 



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