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In relation to reptans , to %hich it as a whole is closely allied, 

 especially recognized by narrower, not dull, but somewhat glistening 

 pronotum. 



Black, finely haired, somewhat glistening; pronotum sometimes pitch- 

 brown; elytra brown or darkly brown, toward tip and at the suture red; 

 abdominal tip brownish; antennae distally pitch-brown, their- base, mouth- 

 parts and legs yellowish-red. 



The head is finely and rather aensely punctated; antennae same as in 

 reptans ; pronotum distinctly narrower than elytra and not broader than 

 long, finely and densely punctated and the surface not or very indistinct- 

 ly shagreened, therefore less dully glistening then in the preceding spe- 

 cies; posterior margin in the o is at middle distinctly tumid. Elytra a 

 little longer than pronotum, somewhat more distinctly, but less densely 

 punctated than in reptans ; abdomen anteriorly with rather robust and dense, 

 posteriorly the fifth free dorsal Joint with scattered punctation. L. 2.5- 

 3 mm. 



Quite surely rarer and more local than reptans, with which it is easi- 

 ly confused; in gnawings of bark-beetles on pine- and oak-trunks I have 

 found a few specimens in the forests at Hilleriid. 



4. P. latens Er. 



(^righs- ien. Spec. Staph. 78; ^ianglb. Kaf. M. II, 105. - major Kraatz 

 Ins..:;. II, 338.- producta I.'.uls. et Rey ErtJvip. 1874, 447). 



Identifiable by tue rather strong gloss of the body, the isolated punc- 

 tation of pronotum, and the color of elytra, also that the fourth free dor- 

 sal joint of abdomen is notably more feebly impressed at base than the three 



preceding joints. 



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