(Pa-e 70) 

 It is distributed in Middle Europe and has apparently its northern 

 boundary in this country. It lives on damp forest ground and is hereto- 

 fore^ with us, only found in St. Dyrehave at Hiller^d under moist leaves 

 at v-oodland fungi (5. 19Cc, author). 



2. Subgenus Mniusa M uls. et Pey. 

 2. 0. Incrassata Uul s. et Pey. 



(Muls. et Rey Opusc. Entom. I, 1852, 32 f HomalotaJ ; Kraatz Ins. E. II, 

 181 f OxypodaT ; Thorns. Skand. Col. IX, 2£3 [^ ::emosoma^ ; I^^uls. et Rey Ere- 

 vip. 1874, 429 f Ocyu sa" 7 j Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 82 £ Mniusa^ ). 



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"'ithin the genus easily Identified by the large head, the broad, grooved 

 pronotum and by short elytra. 



Body rather short, most often feebly broadened posteriorly, very finely 

 haired, modulated shine, black or in teneral specimens brownish black; an- 

 tennal base and legs brownish-red or yellowish-red. 



The head is large, however a little narrower than pronotum, almost 

 without punctation, but as well as pronotum with especially finely and 

 densely shagreened surface; antennae short, robust, thickened distally, 

 their third joint shorter than the second, the next-last and middle ones 

 at least twice as broad as long, distal joint short, obtusely tipped. 

 Pronotum at least as broad as elytra, Ife times as broad as long, with smooth- 

 ly rounded sides and almost rounded off hind corners, slightly convex, with 

 fine, isolated punctation, and with a flat, but distinct, oftenest through- 

 running lonjitudinul groove in middle-line; elytra not longer than prono- 

 tum,, a little flat, with dense, scnbrous-granoloso and rather robust punc- 



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