(Pa^je 140) 



A comparatively broad, rather uniformly broad species v.ith peculiar- 

 ly broad head, broad pronotum and not strongly tapering abdomen; other- 

 wise identified by the color. 



Black, rather glistening, finely haired; elytra sometimes pitch-brown- 

 ish; legs yellowish brown with darker femora. 



Head short and broad, very little narrower than pronotum, very finely 

 and especially at middle sparsely punctated; antennae rather long, but not 

 robust, scarcely thickened distally, finely bristle-haired, their second 

 and third joints of same length, the fourth longer then broad, the middle 

 ones as long as broad, the next-last ones scarcely transverse, distal joint 

 as long as the two preceding joints together. Pronotum but very little 

 narrower than elytra, nearly twice as broad as long, anteriorly scarcely 

 narrowing, with smoothly rounded sides and a few side-bristles, rather 

 flatly convex, finely and densely granulated punctated, most often with 

 a suggested transversal fovea posteriorly before the scutellum, more rarely 

 feebly grooved in medial line; elytra i longer than pronotum, very aensely 

 and rather finely scabrously punctated; abdomen slightly tapering, its 

 first three free dorsal Joints with very fine and scattarad punctatlon, the 

 following almost smooth, the sides bristle-haired. The bristles of tibiae 

 are short and indistinct. L. 3-3.5 mm. 



In the t5^the first four antennal joints on inner side with longer and 

 denser hair clothing than in the Q ; thu head at midale slightly depressed 

 and abdomen more distinctly tiipering than in the p . 



At excrements, in fungi and under rotting plants; distributed in Middle 

 Europe, with us rather rare and somewhat local. 



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