(Pa-e 86) 

 than forebody, anteriorly v.ith rather fine and dense, posteriorly more 

 isolated punctation, first four free dorsal joints equally strongly trans- 



(Pa-e 87) 

 versally grooved depressed at base and the fifth much longer than the fourth 

 L. 2.5-3 mm. 



Distributed in the woodland throughout the country, and not rare under 

 tark and in the jaleries of bark-beetles on trunks and stubs of infested 

 pinaclous trees. 



2. P. an;^ustif ormis Liaudi. 



(Baudi 3erl. Ent. Ztschr. 1869, 379; danjlb. Kaf. K. II, 104). 



Very closely allied to and similar with reptans ; (teste aanglbauer) 

 somewhat narrower; third joint of maxillary palpi brownish; abdomen en- 

 tirely black and its tip scarcely lighter. Pronotum is distinctly narrow- 

 er than elytra, broader than long, in the surface extremely finely shagreen- 

 ed and therefore dull, but as well as the elytra less finely and less dens- 

 ely punctated than in reptans ; elytra longer than in this species, about 

 i longer than pronotum; the foremost dorsal joints of abdomen with rather 

 robust end dense punctation, the fifth free joint with fine and very iso- 

 lated punctation. L. 2.2-2.5 mm. 



It is distributed in Kiddle and North Europe, but heretofore not found 



in this country. 



3. P. corticalis Oravh. 



(Jravh. Micr. 76; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 312; ien. Spec. Staph. 77; 

 Kraatz Ins. ^. II, 337; Thoms. Skand. Col. II, 285; Muls. et Fey Brevip. 

 444; ianglb. Kaf. V.. II, 105). 



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