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 pronotal sides, elytra, tip of abdomen and posterior margins of its joints 

 more or less brownish-yellow; antennal base and legs yellow. 



The forebody in surface extremely finely shagreened and due thereto 

 of dull shine, a little more distinctly and densely punctated than in cin - 

 namomea . Antennae more slender than in this species, pronotum less convex, 

 most often distinctly grooved in middle-line. Abdomen feebly shagreened in 

 surface, its first three free dorsal joints rather robust and dense, the 

 two following finely and very sparsely punctated. L. 4 mm. 



In the d*^ the sixth free dorsal joint of abdomen at middle with a small, 

 smooth, posteriorly obtuse boss or carina; its posterior margin at middle 

 angularly produced with bidentate tip, and with a more or less developed 

 tooth at each side. 



Distributed throughout Middle and North Europe, but much rarer than the 

 preceding species; in this country only found in a few places in the vicini- 

 ty of Vejle and Faaborg, in -^ossus gnawings of oak trunks, together with 

 cinnamomea (L. Andersen, author). May also be found with Lasius fuliglnosus 

 in hollow trees, mainly where these also have been attacked by the '^ossus 

 larvae (Sharp). 



2. Subgenus Notothecta Thome. 

 6, H. flavipes Gravh. 



(iravh. Uon. 161; Erichs. Jen. Spec. Staph. 124; Kraalz Jns. L, II, 263; 

 Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 1C7; Sharp Fev. brit. Horn. 2J>2>; Muls. et Rey Bre'vip. 

 1873, 137; ianglb. Kaf. M. II, 136). 



(Pago 120) 



5y form of body, color and greasy gloss, also by the compact outer joints 



of the antennae, and by the prominent hind corners of pronotum, this and the 



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