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1. Subgenus Amarochara s. str. Thons. 



1. A. umbtosa Er. 



(Erichs. Kaf. m. Br. I, 304; Jen. Spec. Staph. 6t; Kraatz Ins. E. 

 II, 145; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 303; Mul s. et Rey Brevip. 1874, 527; 

 Janglb. Kaf. M. II, £9). 



A narrow and fine species. In appearance like a Gal ode ra species, 

 especially recognizeablc by the standard characters of the subgenus. 



Black, glistening, sparsely haired; elytra brown, at sides and base 

 obliterated black; legs yellow or brownish yellow; in teneral animals 

 are not alone the elytra, but also pronotum, tip of abdomen and posterior 

 margins of its joints, also antennal base, and the mouth-parts lighter 

 or darker reddish-brown. 



The head is almost smooth; antennae robust and rather long, their 

 first joint tr.lck and dorsally provided with an oblique groove, about 

 half as long as the Joint, the base of second Joint curved, third Joint 

 shorter than the second, the fourth short and broad, the middle and next- 

 last ones (5-10) of equal breadth, about tv.ice as broad as long. Pro- 

 notum is narrower than elytra, scarcely broader than long with smoothly 

 rounded sides and obtusely rounded off hind corners, punctation very fine, 

 isolated, without impressions; elytra a little longer than pronotum, not 

 more densely, but somewhat more distinctly punctated than this, their pos- 

 terior margin inside the outer corners not incurved. Abdomen of equal 

 breadth, finely, but not densely punctated; Its first three free doDrsal 

 joints transversally grooved depressed at base. 1. 3 mm. 



Distributed throughout North ana Middle Europe, everywhere rare; in 



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