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6. U. lug^ens iiravh. 



(iJravh. I.'Iicr. &5j Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 289; len. Spec. Staph. 39; Kraatz 

 Ins. E. II, 126; Muls. et Rey Bre'vip. 1873, 76; ^anglb. Kaf. M. II, 123). 



Shorter and comparatively broader than the preceding species; identified 

 by the color and also especially by the short, broad pronctum. 



Rather short and broed, of even breadth; black, pitch-black or pitchy-brown 

 I ^jlistening, finely haired; elytra brownish yellow, around scutellum and on 

 outer hind corners more or less widely blackish-brown; the antennae brown, 

 their base, the mouth-parts, posterior margins of foremost abdominal joints, 

 and the legs brownish red or brownish red-yellow. 



The head with very fine, scattered punctation; antennae rather short, 

 strongly thickened toward the tip, their next-last joints more than twice as 

 broad as long, distal joint a little longer than the two preceding joints 

 together. Pronotum almost as broad as elytra, short, twice as broad as long 

 with rather smoothly rounded sides and rounded off hind corners, slightly 

 convex, finely and densely punctated, with a suggested or feeble longitudi- 

 nal impression posteriorly before scutellum; elytra distinctly longer than 

 pronotum, with finer and denser punctation than same, their hair vestiture 

 finely silky-glistening; abdomen almost smooth. L. 4.5-5 mm. 



In the O the forehead is slightly impressed, the posterior longitudinal 

 Impression on pronotum is more distinct than in Q , and posterior margin 

 of the sixth free dorsal joint of abdomen is slightly lnourv«<4, • 



'"ith I-asius f'lll.^inosus . but local and rare (K;rfge, .;rede, Donse, Ilillerod). 



7. M. laticollls Mark. 

 (Mark. Jerm. Ztschr. V, 203; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 127; Thorns. Skand. Col. 



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