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 haired, forwardly feebly converging sides, dorsum smoothly convex, very 

 finely, densely punctated, the .surface together with the rest of the fore- 

 body extremely finely shagreened, at middle-line sometimes feebly grooved; 

 elytra' > longer than pronotum and somewhat more distinctly punctated than 

 same; abdomen distinctly tapering, almost impunctate and polished. L. 4-5 am, 



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In the 3^ the suture of elytra anteriorly as a rule with cariniform el- 

 evation suddenly declining toward the scutellum; abdominal sixth free dor- 

 sal joint as a rule with a robust carina at middle, posterior margin at 

 middle triangularly produced and emarginate in tip, on each side of middle 

 deeply incised, whereby an acute inwardly directed tooth is formed at each 

 corner (Fig. 4C). 



Distributed in Middle and North Europe. There the larva of the destruc- 

 tive and large carpenter moth Cossus ligniperda has attacked poplars, oak, 

 elm and other deciduous trees, there most often H. cinnamomea can be found 

 either in the larvae tunnels or by the outflowing sap, and usually quite 

 numerously. In this country it is local, but otherwise not rare. 



3. H. hospita Mark. 



(Mark. :;erm. Zeitschr. V, 216; Kraatz Ins. E. II, 250; Thorns. Skand. :ol, 

 III. 60; Sharp Fev. Brit. Hom. 217; Muls. et Fey Brevip. 1873, 154; 3anglb. 

 Kaf. M. II, 127). 



It resembles cinnamomea , but is considerably smaller and more dully 

 glistening, and especially easily separated from same by the punctation of 

 abdomen. 



Pitch-brown or reddish-brown, finely haired, feebly or dully glistening; 



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