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 At manure, decaying plants, under leaves and at carrion etc.; dis- 

 tributed all over and not rare. 



28. H. ni.'^ripes Thorns. 



(Thorns. Ofv. Vet. Ac. Fo'rh. 1B58, 102; Skand. Col. Ill, 94; 3an(jlb. 

 Kaf. M. II, 164. - villosula Kraatz Ins. I. II, 30E; Sharp Rev. Brit. 

 Horn. 249). 



FecOjjnized by color of the body and sex-characters of the o , 

 Feebly fusiform; coal-black, rather finely black-haired; forebody 

 feebly, abdomen more strongly glistening; legs black or brownish black 

 with brov-n-red knees and tarsi. 



Forebody very finely shagreened in surface and therefore feebly or 

 dully shining; the head rather small, rounded, with fine e-nd scattered 

 granulate punctation; antennae fully as long as head and pronotum togeth- 

 er, slightly thickened distally, distinctly bristle-haired, their second 

 and third joints of same length, the fourth as long as broad, the middle 

 ones feebly, the next-last more distinctly, but not strongly transverse, 

 distal joint tapering, as long as the two preceding joints together. 

 Pronotum is somewhat narrower than elytra, about \\ times as broad as long, 

 anteriorly more tapering than posteriorly, with slightly rounded sides, 

 on which the outstanding bristles are long and distinct; dorsum rather con- 

 vex, with rather robust, but not dense granulate punctation and with a 

 small, either foeble or merely suggested transverse fovea posteriorly 

 before the scutellum. Elytra somewhat longer than pronotum, more densely 

 and robustly granulated punctated than this; abdomen tapering posteriorly, 

 its first three free aorsal joints with distinct and rather isolated punc- 



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