(Pa^e 134) 



In the o the posterior margin of the sixth free dorsal joint of ab- 

 domen with four very small spines, separated by three, about e:iually broad 

 feeble sinuations; in the ^ the posterior margin of the same joint at 

 middle very slightly incurved. (Fig. 42 and 42a). 



Distributed everywhere and rather common under decaying plant matter, 

 often numerous in compost. 



24. K. hodierna Sharp. 



(Sharp Rev. Brit. Horn. 236; danglb. Kaf. Li. II, 161). 



Very closely allied to zosterae Thorns, and perhaps only an aberration 

 of this species, but larger and more robust; antennae longer, less thick- 

 ened toward tip; the impressions of head and pronotum in the ^ are distinct. 



Black, glistening, finely haired; elytra often brownish; legs darkly 

 brownish -ye How. 



The head is broader and shorter than in zosterae , punctetion same as in 

 this, in the O distinctly impressed and grooved at middle; antennae longer 

 and more slender, scarcely thickened distally, their middle and next-last 

 joints longer, each of these a little longer than broad, distal joint dis- 

 tinctly longer than in zosterae . Pronotum somewhat narrower than elytra, 

 about '/j broader than long, v^vj finely and densely punctated and with an 

 oftenest distinct longitudinal groove in medial line; elytra about \'i3 

 times as long as pronotun:, punctated like same; abdomen and its punctatlon 

 also the characters of d^ same as in zosterae . L. 2-2.5 mm. 



It is kno'An from England and Middle Europe; in Denmark it is hereto- 

 fore only found at Aalborg and a few places in Korth Zealand, eepecially 



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