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 -ly convex, with fine but not dense granulated punctation, without im- 

 pressions; elytra a little longer than pronotum, punctated like this; 

 abdomen distinctly tapering, all over densely and finely punctated, gray- 

 ish-glistening haired, posterior margin of Joints and the sides with long 

 bristles, the fifth free abdominal joint longer than the fourth. Middle 

 and hind tibiae each with two robust bristles in outer margin. L. 3-3. 5mm. 



In the C? the next-last ventral Joint of abdomen somewhat elongate 

 and rounded off at tip; in the p the posterior margin at middle slightly 

 incurved. 



Common everywhere at manure and rotting plant matter, also at carrion; 



more rarely in alluvium. 



26. H. macrocera Thorns. 



(Thoms. Ofv. Vet. Acad. Forh. 1656, 10-6; Skand Col. Ill, 96; Sharp 

 Fev. Brit. Horn. 2-;4; ? Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 163 / "Radursl y . 



A small, fusiform, rather narrow species, which in form etc. resemb- 

 les longicornis , but is not half as larjs; the antennae ere proportiona- 

 ly as long, but much less robust, abdomen, especially posteriorly, less 

 densely punctated. 



black, glistening, finely and on abdomen long haired; elytra and most 

 often also the abdominal tip brownish yellow. 



The head a little narrower than pronotum, finely and rether densely 

 ;ranulated-punctated, occasionally feebly grooved at middle; antennae 

 long, as long as head, pronotum and elytra together, slender tna not thick- 

 ened distally, the first four Joints bristle-haired, th« folloving pube- 

 scent and dull, the third Joint about .,-- long as the second,. the fourth 



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