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 body is lighter, most often entirely reddish-brown; the head, pronotum and 

 abdomen hov»ever sometimes darker brown. L. 4-5 mm. 



Its home is especially in Middle Kurope and is said mainly to be found 

 in company with Formica rufa and Myrmica rubra , however also in alluvium. 

 A single specimen in the late Konservator Liivendal ' s collection from Tiis^ 

 seashore is probably this species. 



17. Jenus Fhloeopora Br. 



(Erichs. Kaf. Ijik. Br. I, 311; 5en. Spec. Staph. 76; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 

 324; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 288; Muls. et Pey Brevip. 1874, 435; (Janglb. Kaf. 

 M. II, 102). 



Among the Aleocharina ^^enera, in which the head is constricted behind, 

 Phloeopora is identified especially by: that the first joint of hind tarsi 

 is shorter than the two following joints together. Furthermore the follow- 

 ing remarks: 



The body is narrow and of rather equal breadth, slightly convex; the 

 head porrect and constricted behind; the eyes slightly prominent; temples 

 and genae finely, sometimes incompletely marginated; antennae short, their 

 third joint shorter than the second, the next-last ones strongly transverse; 

 maxillary palpi rather slender, the third joint longer than the second, 

 the fourth very small and fine, subuliform; the tongue short, cleft to the 

 middle; labial palpi fine, their first ^oint cylindrical, the second much 

 shorter than the first and third. 



Pronotum is as Lroad as elytra or narrower than these, slightly narrow- 

 ing posteriorly with distinct hind corners and rounded off fore-corners; 

 the elytra at least as long as pronotum, their posterior margin inside the 



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