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 On account of much similarity in appearance, form, color, size etc. 

 S. viduata can at first glance be confused with Oxypoda funebris ; by closer 

 investigation it is however easily separated from this species by, that 

 the fore-tarsi are only 4-jointed, and that the first Joint of hind tarsi 

 is short, that the antennae are longer, their third joint more slender end 

 as long as the second, and that the body as a whole, but especially abdom- 

 en is less finely and densely punctated than in 0. funebris . It also in sev- 

 eral respects resembles certain species of Metaxya . subgenus of Homalota , 

 such as: H. clavipes , i slandia , Aubei ; the determining characters here - 

 next after the cleft mandibles - i^in be its small head, punctation of ab- 

 domen, sex-characters of the O , and the modulated, gray, silky gloss of 

 the body. 



24. Jenus Tomoglossa Kr. 



(Kraatz. Ins. D. II, 342; Uuls. et Rey Bre^'vip. 1875, 331. Janglb. Kaf. 

 :/. II. 131;. 



Mainly by broader labrum, slenderer mandibles, and especially by more 

 deeply cleft tongue Tomo-;lossa differs from the otherwise very closely al- 

 lied genus Homalota . from which its single European species is separated 

 by Kraatz. 



The body is narrow and of even breadth, in appearance and form it some- 

 what resembles a small Phloeopore . The head is almost as broad as prono- 

 tum, transverse-square with rather straight sides and rounded off temple 

 corners, distinctly constricted behind, porrectj eyes ordinarily large, 

 slightly convex; temples and j^enne indistinctly marglnated; antennae rather 

 short, as long as head and pronotum together, slightly thickened distally; 



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