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Lundby Hills at Aalborg, vicinity of Copenhagen (?). June- August). 



22. 0. recondlta Kr. 



(Kraatz Ins. L. II, 182; JJanglb. Kaf. M. II, 74). 



A small species, recognized especially by form and color of the body, 

 scattered punctation of abdomen, and the elongate third joint of maxil- 

 lary palpi. 



Bather e-jually broad, feebly narrowing anteriorly and posteriorly, 

 '/ost often pure reddish-yellow, glistening, very finely haired; the head 

 brownish-red; the fourth free abdominal joint often also base of the fifth 

 dark or pitch-black; antennae, mouth-parts and legs reddish-yellow. 



The head extremely finely or indistinctly punctated; antennae as long 

 as head and pronotum together, rather strongly thickened distally, their 

 third joint much shorter than the second, the next-last ones tv^ice as broad 

 as long; maxillary palpi rather long, their third joint elongated, the fourth 

 extremely fine. Pronotum as broad as elytra, ij times as broad as long, 

 anteriorly feebly, roundly narrowing with roundly-obtuse hind corners, 

 convex, without impressions, isolated ana particularly fine punctation; 

 elytra as long as pronotum, somewhat more robustly but hardly more dense- 



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 ly punctated than same, their posterior margin inside the outer corners 

 flatly incurved, Abdomen is equally broad till over the middle, from there 

 narrowing, all over very finely, anteriorly not dunsely punctated, toward 

 tip with isolated or scattered punctation. In not worn specimens the pos- 

 tt-rior margins of dorsal abdominal joints and also tht sides liave numer- 



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