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 are more strongly depressed at base than in our Oxypoda ordinarily, and 

 which otherwise is easily identified especially by the dappled color and 

 relatively lon^; elytra. 



Father slender and feebly fusiform, flatly convex. Reddish-yellow, 

 finely haired, slightly glistening; the head and a broad band before ab- 

 dominal tip, also metathorex black; a large spot on hind corners of elytra, 

 and most often also surroundings of scutellum blackish; antennae dark, 

 their base, and the legs reddish yellow. 



Head porrect, very finely but not densely punctated; antennae robust, 

 thickened distally, their third Joint shorter than the second, the middle 

 and next-last ones about tvice as broad as long, mstal Joint rather long. 

 Pronotum distinctly narrower than elytra, 1^ times as broad as long, nar- 

 rowing anteriorly, slightly convex, densely and rather finely punctated 

 with a ffleble fovea before scutellum; elytra li times as long as pronotum, 

 punctated about like this, their posterior margin inside the outer corners 

 broadly incurved; abdomen tapering, especially finely and densely punc- 

 tated, eilky-gllstening haired, almost without side-bristles; first joint 

 of hind tarsi as long as the three following joints together. L. 3.F-4 mm. 



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Frequent in all our forest regions, and in the autumn often in great 

 numbers in fungi; distributea throughout the greater part of Europe. 



6. Subgenus Sphenoma Mannh. 

 (T hliboptera Thorns. Skand . Col, III, PO) . 



17. 0. planlpennls Thorns. 



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