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 - The larva of Atemeles emar::;inatus (?) is described and illustrated by 

 bl. "'asmann: Lebensweise d. CJatt. Atemeles u. Lomechusa . Haaj 1888, 81. 



Key to Species. 

 1. Antennal third joint at most 1» times as lonj as the second. The first 

 three free dorsal abdominal joints at middle shortened by trans- 

 verse folding. L. 4-4.5 mm 1. A. emarginatu s Payk. 



Antennal third joint more elongate, twice as lon^ as the second. First 

 three free dorsal joints not shortened at middle by transverse 

 folding. L. 4-4.5 mm 2. A. paradoxus (Jravh. 



1. A. emarginatus Payk. 



(Payk. Won. Staph. 56; Srichs. Kiif. l/ik. Br. I, 376; Jen. Spec. Ptaph. 

 2C£; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 117; Thorns. Skand. 3ol. II, 244; Muls. et Rey Br^- 

 vip. 1873, 3C. Tanglb. K'af. M. II, 112). 



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Pust-red; elytra lighter, the head, middle part of pronotum and middle 

 of the foremost abdominal joints pitchy bro^r'n or pitch-black; occasionally 

 the entire pi onotum is black (v. nlKricollis Kr.)« 



Head and pronotum especially finely shagreened, very sparsely, scarce- 

 ly visibly haired, with scattered and very fine punctetion, feebly glist- 

 ening; the antennae much longer than head and pronotum together (Fig. 3C) , 

 not thickened distally, their first joint thick, the second short, the third 

 k time longer, the fourth and fifth as broad as long, the following, 6-10, 

 fully as long as broad, very short-stemmed, distal joint narrow, longer 

 than the two preceding joints together, lenghty and feebly tuperlng. Pro- 

 notum Is much broader than long, posteriorly across the corners broader than 



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