(Paje 152) 

 In the O the second, third, and fourth joint densely haired on inner 

 side; posterior margin of sixth free dorsal joint of abdomen (Fig. 51) 

 almost evenly truncated or slightly rounded and feebly notched with al- 

 most rectangular, feebly thickened corners; in the C (Fig. 51a) contrari- 

 wise broadly incurved with acut^ dentiform corners. The nixt-last ven- 

 tral joint in the <j rounded off, in the Q feebly incurved and the margin 

 with short bristles. 



Distributed in woodland regions in North and Middle Europe; in the 

 autumn especially in fungi and under bark of old, tindery tree-stubs; 

 in this country rare and local (Lundbykrat at Aalborg, Hillerpd, Dyre- 

 haven at Copenhagen et al. in North Zealand), sometimes numerously. 



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 48. H. crassicornis Fabr. 



(Fabr. Snt. Syst. I, 2, 52S; ianglb. Kaf. V.. II, 180.- sericans Jravh. 

 Mon. 159; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 77. - funi^icola Kraatz Ins. D. II, 274; 

 Sharp Rev. Brit. Horn. 19S; Muls. et Pey Bre'vlp. 1873, 52C). 



A rather variable species, of v\hich the best diagnostic characters 

 within the subgenus are: proportionately robust antennae, colorinj of el- 

 ytra and the sex-characters of the O^ . 



Black, finely haired; forebody most often with moderated shine; elytra 

 brown, as a rule with feeble dark, shading around scutellum and at hind 

 corners; abdominal tip sometimes brownish; untennal base reddish-yellow 

 or orownish-red; legs pure reddish-yellow. 



The head broad and short, narrower than pronotum, punctulion fine and 

 scattered; antennae rather robust, their first joint in the O distinctly 



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