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 are by Kraatz placed with those in which the abdomen is of uniform breadtht 

 it can however - partly in agreement with Sharp - be considered justifiab- 

 le to include them here. Their abdomen is undoubtedly tapering. 



In the subgenera belonging to this series, the temples and genae are 

 ordinarily entirely marginated, only in riotothecta , Lyprocorrhe and Badura 

 immarginate. Eyes are normally large, antennae most often rather slender, 

 more rarely robust (e.g. Thamiaraea , ?haetida ) . Pronotum is much broader 

 than long, ordinarily narrowing anteriorly, rarely feebly constricted be- 

 hind. In several subgenera (e.g. Chaetida , Badura , Dimetrota ) the sides of 

 pronotum are provided with outstanding bristles, in others not; its epipleu- 

 ra in Goprothassa and the three following subgenera are so strongly inflex- 

 ed that they lie horizontal, in all others less strongly inflexed and are 

 then partly visible from the side; hind corners are prominent in Notothecta 

 and Lyprocorrhe , else more or less rounded off. The elytra are longer than 

 pronotum, in a few cases nearly of same length as this. Abdominal first three 



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 free dorsal joints are feebly or rather feebly obliquely depressed at base, 

 the fifth occasionally (e.g. Golpodota , Chaetida ) distinctly longer than the 

 fourth; Abdominal sides end the four hindmost tibiae in several subgenera 

 ( Chaetidae , Eadura , Dimetrota ) with remarkably robust bristles, a quality 

 which seemingly is especially developed in species which preferably live in 

 manure, at carrion and decaying plants. In Thamiaraea . Notothecta and Lypro - 

 corrhe the middle-coxae are broadly separated, in the others narrowly. 

 In all of these the tip of mesosternum reaches at least to the midddle bel- 



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