(Pase 101) 

 arated narrow lobes. Turthermore the following remarks: 



The body is slender and rather of even breadth; Ihe head small, rounded, 

 rounded off posteriorly but not constricted, much narrower than pronotuir, 

 V. ith ordinary large, hardly prominent eyes and very finely marginated temp- 

 les; antennae rather long and slender, feebly thickened distally, finely 

 bristle-haired; maxillary palpi rather slender, their third joint somewhat 

 thickened and a little longer than the second, the last one very fine, small, 

 subulif orm. 



Pronotum nearly as broad as elytra, ik times as broad as long with round- 

 ed sides, rounded off fore-corners, and not entirely rounded off hind corners, 



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 slightly convex; elytra longer than pronotum, their posterior margin in- 

 side the outer corners feebly incurved; abdomen rather evenly broad, its 

 first three free dorsal joints depressed at base; legs rather slender; 

 fore-tarsi 4-jointed, the others 5-jointed; first joint of hind tarsi short, 

 however a little longer than the second, much shorter than the claw-joint. 



The species is distributed in North and Middle Europe, especially on 

 boggy forest end meadow ground, and is also found in this country. 



1. S. viduata Er. 



(Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 330; 3en. Spec. Staph. Ill; Kraatz Ins. T. IJ, 

 345; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 97; Muls. et Rey Br^vip. 1875, ?39; "Janglb. Kaf. 

 U. II, 131). 



In conjunction with the generic characters especially identifiable by 



the very fine, silky glistening hair vestiture of the body, and by the punc- 



tation of abdomen, also by the sex-characters of o' . (Fig. 36). 



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