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it perhaps is only a small, dark aberration, it is separated from this 

 by, that the elytra are darker, pitch-black or pitch-brown, the legs 

 pitch-brown or brovnish yellov; with darker femora; the antennae short, 

 toward tip comparatively more strongly thickened, their third Joint dis- 

 tinctly shorter than the second, the next-last ones about twice as broad 



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 as long; the bristles on the tibiae are finer and shorter. It is nearly 

 half the size of the precedin£j species. L. 1.5-2 mm. 



In the 5' the sixth free dorsal joint of abdomen without spines at 

 aaargin, its next-last ventral joint rounded off at tip, in the p distinct- 

 ly incurved. 



In manure and under rotten plants; distributed in England and Middle 



Europe; here it has so far only been found at Odense ( Jjefrgensen) and Hil- 



ler^d (Author), but elsewhere distributed about like laevana. 



31. H. atramentaria (Jyllh. 



(jyllh. Ins. Sueo. II, 408; F.richs. Jen. Spec. Staph. Ill; Kraatz Ins. 

 D. II, 3C5; Thorns. Skand. -^ol. Ill, S2; Sharp. Pev. Brit. Horn. 250; Mule, 

 et Fey Br^vip. 1873, 450; ianglb. Kaf. M. II, 168). 



Raco^jnized by the most often distinct bronze reflection of head, pro- 

 notum and elytra, and by the only feebly tapering form of abdomen. Not- 

 withstanding this latter character its right place is undaubtedly within 

 subgenus Dimetrota . where other species with bronze reflection also occur. 



Black, finely haired, glistening; head, pronotum and elytra most oftai 

 distinctly with light or dark bronze-like gloss; elytra at middle most 

 often brownish; legs brownish black Aith lighter knees and tarsi or yel- 

 lowish-brown with darker femora. 



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