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 In opposition to Kraatz and Sharp, but in agreement with Mulsant et Fey and 

 ■Janglbauer, the species with tapering abdomen are placed first, while those 

 with slender antennae come last. This arrangement accomplices, that Ihamiaraea 

 and Notothecta as some of tne most deviating subgenera are placed closer to 

 Myrmedonia . while subgenus Jnypeta , which likewise is very deviating, ter- 

 minates the series of subgenera with transition to the most closely allied 

 and following genus Tachyusa . 



In place of the generic name Homalota Uannh. , which Thomson and Jangl- 

 bauer only accept for Horn, plana iyllh. (as type) and a few other species, 

 these authors place the greatest number of older Homalota species under the 

 generic name Atheta Thorns. This altering is however not yet commonly accept- 

 ed, and as we in our collections and catalogs heretofore always have used the 

 oldest name according to Erichson and Kraatz, and furthermore as the species 

 Horn, plana has not so far occurred in this country, we have only applied Thom- 

 son's name Atheta , as the name of one subgenus in the following. 

 Key to Series,: Subgenera and Species. 



1. Abdomen posteriorly narrowing, more or less, yet always distinctly taper- 



ing (Fig. 43); First series 5. 



Abdomen distinctly of even breadth or only posteriorly tapering at tip 



(Fig. 47) 2. 



2. The first two-three free dorsal Joints of abdomen, rarely the first only, 



transversally depressed at base (Fig. 47) 3. 



The first four free dorsal joints of abdomen transversally depressed at 



base (Fig. 71), the fourth however occasionally less strongly (especi- 

 ally in the^)than in the preceding three: Third series 89. 



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