(Paje 131) 

 distal joint distinctly shorter than in same. 



Black, dull, especially finely and sparsely haired; legs brownish 

 yellow; the femora most often darker than tibiae and tarsi. 



The head rather broad, however narrower than pronotum, densely and 

 finely, but sharply punctated, middle-line most often feebly grooved; an- 

 tennae rather slender, feebly thickened distally, their third joint short- 

 er and finer than the second, conical, the fourth small and as long as 

 broad, the middle ones feebly, the next-last onet distinctly transverse, 

 distal joint short, much shorter than in sordidula , scarcely as long as 

 the two next-last joints together. Pronotum a little narrower than elytra, 

 amply ik times as broad as long, with smoothly rounded sides without out- 

 standing bristles, flatly convex, very densely, finely, but sharply punc- 

 tated, oftenest with a suggestion of a groove in middle-line, elytra'!'^ 

 longer than pronotum, punctated like same; abdomen of rather uniform 

 breadth, very finely and densely punctated. The middle tibiae with a short 

 and feeble, outstanding bristle at middle, the hind tibiae without bristle. 

 L. 1.2 mm. 



In tne O^the posterior margin of the sixth free dorsal joint indis- 

 tinctly quadro-dentflte (see Fig. 42). 



At manure, carrion and rotting plant-matter; distributed in North and 



Middle Europe; rare in this country. 



H. sordidula Erichs. 



(Erichs. Kaf. L'k. Br. I, 335; ien. Spec. Staph. 123; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 

 296; Thorns, '^kand. Col. Ill, £•! ; Sharp Fev. Erit. Horn. 238; Muls. et Fey 

 Br^vip. 1873; 372; langlb. Kaf. I.:. II, 162). 



A Vary small, narrow species with distinctly tapering abdomen and rath- 



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