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In color most like opaca and 'Aithin the subgenus Podoxya namely re- 

 markable by its Sphenoma -like lar^e pronotum, of which however the dorsum 

 is smaller than that of the elytra. 



Black or pitch-black, rather glistening, very finely haired; elytra 

 most often brov*n; accasionally pronotum, especially its sides is also 

 brownish; tip of abdomen and posterior margins of its foremost joints as 

 a rule reddish; antennal base and the mouth-parts brownish-red; leg-? yel- 

 lowish-red. In teneral animals the brov.nish color is more predominating 

 and lighter; immature animals are yellowish-brown. 



The head is finely and very densely punctated; antennae slender, only 

 feebly thickened distally, their third Joint most often distinctly short- 

 er than the second, the next-last ones feebly transverse. Pronotum is pro- 

 portionately large, posteriorly as broad as elytra, however hardly 1^ times 

 as broad as long, anteriorly roundly narrowing, its hind corners entirely 

 rounded off, dorsum rather convex, finely and very densely punctated, with- 

 out impressions; elytra distinctly longer than pronotum, finely and especi- 

 ally densely puncteted, their posterior margin inside the outer corners 

 strongly Inourv^d; abdomen strongly tapering, all over viry fine and dense 

 punctatlon, silky-glistening haired, on Joints and at tip with numerous 

 bristles. L. 3.5 ram. 



Distributed in Middle Europe and also found in Finland. An immature 

 specimen of an Oxypoda from Tisvllde, vhlch I have seen, is doubtlesF thie 

 epeclep. It is found in miry, clayish ground under offil of reeds (15. 5. 

 1910. Engelhart). 



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