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 In the o^ the posterior margin of the sixth free dorsal joint* almost 

 evenly truncated or slightly roundly incurved, and the edge more or less 



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 distinctly obtusely serrated; in the Q the same joint is feebly incurved. 

 The next-last ventral joint in the ^roundly tapering. 



On damp ground under leaves and moss, at running springs, in wet al- 

 luvium at lake shores and like places, but in this country rare and local 

 (Meadovfc in Vendsyssel, Pavn-Spring at CJravlev Enge south of Aalborg, in 

 the moss at the spring, SvejLaek at Jul lake). It is furthermore knovvo 

 from Sweden, Silesia and France. 



39. H. castanoptera I^annh. 



(Uannerh. Drach. 77; ;.:uls. et Rey Bre'vip. 1873, 56C; Sanglb. K'a'f. M. 

 II, 176. - zanthoptera Steph. , Sharp. lev. Brit. Horn. 189. - merdaria Thorns. 

 Skand. 3ol. Ill, 81; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 269). 



•Vithin the subgenus Homalota Muls. distinguished by the proportionate- 

 ly long distal joint of the antennae and inter alia recognized thereby. 



Black or pitch-black, finely haired, rather glistening; elytra brown- 

 ish-yellow with blackish-brown reflection around scutellum and acoss the 

 hind corners; the antennae pitch-brown, often with lighter distal joint, 

 their first three joints, and the legs pure reddish-yellow; maxillary pal- 

 pi brownish-yellow. 



The body feebly fusiform, narrowing especially from the middle forward- 

 ly (Fig. 47); the head, pronotum and elytra Indistinctly shugreened in sur- 

 face and more glistening than in the two preceding species. The head is rath- 

 er broad, yet narrower than pronotum, indistinctly punctated; antennae rath- 

 er slender and robust; slightly and smoothly thickened distally, their 



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