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 hind tarsi, longer first joint of middle- and hind-tarsi, also by the den- 

 ser punctation and feebler gloss of abdomen. 



The body elongate and very narrov, ; the head porrect, rather strongly 

 constricted behind; temples and genae not or only indistinctly marginatedj 

 antennae long and rather slender; maxillary palpi elongated, their third 

 joint longest, feebly thicicenea, the fourth very small, subulate; the ton- 

 gue much shorter than in Ocalea , and cleft to the middle; labial palpi 



small. 



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Pronotum is narrower than elytra; these longer than pronotum, their 

 posterior margin inside the outer corners incurved; abdomen elongate, its 

 first three free dorsal joints deeply depressed at base; legs long and 

 fine, all tarsi 5-jointed; first joint of middle-tarsi as long as the fol- 

 lowing two joints together, hind tarsi as long as tibiae, their first joint 

 long, as long as the three following joints together, much longer than the 

 claw-Joint. 



The species live on sandy brims of brooks and lakes, often in company 



with Tachyuser ; 3 species are distributed in north and ?,1iddle Europe, and 



of these 1 is found in this country. 



1, Ch. rubicunda Er. 



(Srichs. ?Caf. Mk. Br. I, 30S; Cien. Spec. Staph. 66; Krantz Ins. D. II, 

 147; Uuls. et Pey Dr^vip. 1874, 512; Janglb. Kaf. M. II, '."6). 



Combined with the generic characters especially identifiable by the 

 color and by punctation of the body. 



Reddislj-brown, finely and rather densely gray-haired, somewhat glisten- 

 ing; the head and the next-last abdominal joints Lrownlsh-black; antennal 



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