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1. P. reptans Jravh. 



(Jravh. lion. 154; Erichs. Kaf. Wk. Br. I, 311; ien. Spec. Staph.. 77; 

 Kraatz Ins. D. II, 337; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 289; ^Janglb. Kaf. K. II, 

 104. - testacea I^annh. Brach. 86) 



'"ithin the genus especially identifiable by the proportionately broad, 

 dull or dully glistening pronotum. 



Narrow and evenly broad, finely gray-haired; feebly glistening; the 

 head black; pronotum black or blackish-brown, almost dull; elytra brownish- 

 red, at base often darker; abdomen black or blackish-brown with brownish- 

 red tip; antennae, mouth-parts and legs yellowish-red. 



The head is nearly as broad as pronotum, densely and very finely punc- 

 tated, the surface indistinctly shagreened, somewhat glistening; antennae 

 short, thickened distally, their third joint smaller and shorter than the 

 second, the fourth small and rounded, the middle- and next-last ones (£-10) 

 increasingly strongly transverse, at least twice as broad as long. Prono- 

 tum anteriorly somewhat broader than long, very little or not narrower 

 than elytra, feebly narrowing posteriorly with distinct, but obtuse-an- 

 gular hind corners, slightly convex, very finely and densely punctated, 

 and furthermore the surface is especially finely and densely shagreened 

 and due thereto dull, posteriorly often with a feeble suggestion of two 

 longitudinal impressions before the scutellura. In the ^ the posterior 

 margin of pronotum is at middle feebly dilated posteriorly. Elytra only 

 slightly longer than pronotum, more robustly, but a little less densely 

 punctated than this, their posterior marjin inside the outer corners strong- 

 ly incurved; abdomen of even br^eadth, mort; glistening and sparsely haired 



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