(Psj9 57) 



Tt lives principally on moist sandy ground, and is distributed in 



North and Middle Europe, but in this country is seemingly rare or very 



rare, most often found on the strand under seaweeds or in the nearness 



of the strand (Ska^en, Aalborg at the F„orl, Tisvilde et al.)« 



14. 0. exoleta Er. 



(Erichs. Jen. Spec. Staph. 14D; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 179; Muls. et Pey 

 Bre'vip. 1874, £85; 3anslb, Kaf. M. II, 69. - riparia Thorns. Skand. Col. 

 Ill, 2C). 



(Paje £8) 



Amonj closely allied species principally recognized by the color, by 

 the most often distinctly tapering form of abdomen, and the scabrous very 

 dense punctation of elytra. 



Narrowly fusiform and somev.hat flatly convex; very finely and rather 

 densely jray-haired, modulated or feeble gloss; livid brownish-yellow; 

 the head, and a ba^d across the third, fourth, and bese of fifth free ab- 

 dominal joints pitch-black or pitch-brovnish; antennae brownish, their 

 base, and the legs reddish-yellow. In most of the individuals pronotum 

 and abdominal tip are lighter brownish-yellow than the oftenest darkly 

 shaded elytra. 



Head with very fine, dense punotation; antennae fine at base, distinct- 

 ly thickened distally. their third Joint shorter than the second, the next- 

 last ones about twice as broad as long. Pronotum is posteriorly as broad 

 86 elytra, li times as broad as long, feebly roundly narrowing anteriorly, 

 with rounded of f-obtuse-angulur hind corners, dorsum flatly convex, vary 

 densely and finely punctated, most often without transverse fovea posteri- 

 orly. 



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