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 than the closest following; mouth-parts and legs brownish yellow. 



The antennae often more slender than in fun.'^i . their first Joint is 

 thicker, - twice as thick as the second; pronotum a little longer, less 

 transverse, hardly 1^ times as broad as long, anteriorly a little more nap- 

 rowing, oftenest somewhat more finely punctated than in the preceding spe- 

 cies, ilytra and abdomen etc- present nospecial differences. L. 2.5-3ram. 



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 It prefers to live on murky ground: in forests, marshes and bogs, and 

 is not rare in such places. 



16. H. pulchra Kr&atz. 



(Kraatz Ins. D. II, 321; Sharp Rev. Brit. Horn. 263; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 

 1873, 251. - clientula Janglb. Kaf. li. II, 158; Erichs. ^en. Spec. Staph. 

 133, nee. Kr.). 



Like orbata very closely allied to fungi , from v.hich it especially and 

 most easily is separated by the color of elytra and the form of pronotum. 



Glistening black, rather finely and sparsely haired; pronotum pitch- 

 brownish or brown with lighter sides; elytra brownish yellow, most often 

 darker around scutellum; abdominal tip brownish; antennae brown, at base a 

 little lighter, legs clear yellow. 



Head rather broad, punctation same a.- in fungi ; ^ntennae rather slender, 

 their first joint thickened, twice as thick as the second, which is neither 

 more robust nor longer than the third, the fourth most often longer than 

 broad, the middle ones as long as broad, the next-last feebly transverse. 

 Pronotum is posteriorly as broad as elytra, Ij times as broad as long, an- 

 teriorly distinctly more narrowing than in fun.^i , sides feebly rounded, with 



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