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13. Subgenus L'ycota Muls. et Fey. 



50. II. sodalis 2r. 



(Erichs. Kaf. M. Br. I, 328; Jen. Spec. Staph. 104; Kraatz Ins. E. II, 

 279; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 84; Sharp "ev. Brit. Horn. 205; Muls. et Rey 

 Erevip. 1873, 507; ianglb. Kaf. M. II, 184). 



A glistening, somewhat fusiform species, which, together with the fol- 

 lowing species, is separated from tha closest allied species by: ^^^ the 

 posterior margin inside the outer corners is distinctly incurved; it is 

 further identified by the coloring of the antennae and by the sex-charac- 

 ters of the 3^ . 



Black, rather strongly glistening, finely haired; elytra unicolorous 

 darkly chestnut-brown or yellowish-brown, sometimes blackish-brown; anten- 

 nae pitch-black, their first tv.o-three Joints, mouth-parts and legs reddish 

 yellow. 



The head rather small, narrovier than pronotum, with very fine and scat- 

 tered punctation, polished; antennae distinctly thickened distally, their 

 second and third joints about of same length, the fourth hardly, the fifth 

 feebly transverse, the following (6-10) increasingly broadened, so that 

 the next-last become almost twice as broad as long, distal joint tapering, 

 as long as the two next-last joints together. Fronotum narrower than el- 

 ytra, approximately ik times as broad as lonj, with anteriorly more strong- 

 ly rounded sides than posteriorly, convex, rather finely and not densely 



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 punctated, in the ^ with a feeble, often indistinct impression posteriorly, 

 in the O with a more distinct and sometimes double, flat longitudinal Im- 



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