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In the autumn numerous everywhere in fungi; v. f ul vlpennis rarer than 



th« .typiical Toriur . mingled with this or separate. 



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49. H. nitidicollis Fairm. 



(Fairm. Faun. Fr. I, 417; lianglb. Kaf. M. II, 181. - fun^icola Thorns. 

 Skand. Zol. Ill, 76. - i^nobilis Sharp Pev. Brit. Horn. 2C0). 



Very closely allied to the preceding species, deviating from the type 

 form of same by the following: 



Forebody a little more convex, and pronotum hardly as flat at middle. 

 The color is darker, elytra as a rule darkly brown, sometimes black; anten- 

 nae entirely black or pitch-brownish at base; legs brownish yellow with 

 darker posterior femora, sometimes only the upper margin of the femora 

 dark. 



Fourth joint of the antennae very small, broader than long and decided- 

 ly narrower than the fifth. 



In the O the first joint of the antennae not thickened, but together 

 with the third formed as in^ . Posterior margin of the sixth free dorsal 

 joint of abdomen in the O (Fig. 53) is very feebly serrate or notched and 

 the corners slightly prominent. In the p (Fig. 53a) the next-last ventral 

 joint at middle distinctly incurved*) and the margin fimbriate with rather 

 long, black bristle-hairs. 



Distributed in woodland regions, and in this country not rare in the 

 autumn, in fungi, often togeth^^i with crassicornls and other fungus-seek- 

 ing species, also in compost. 



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 ■»)literally undate . translator. 



