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Black, finely haired, dull or with dull jloss; elytra brownish; an- 

 tennal base, and the mouth-parts brownish-red, legs reddish-yellow. 



Head rather small, distinctly narrower than pronotum, very finely or 

 indistinctly punctated; antennae smoothly and not strongly thickened dis- 

 tally, their third joint as long as, or a little shorter than the second 

 and thinner than this, the middle Joints (4-6) feebly, the next-last (7-lC) 

 a little more strongly transverse, distal joint as long as the two pre- 

 ceding joints together. Pronotum posteriorly about as broad as elytra, 

 amply 1^ times as broad as long, slightly narrowing anteriorly, with round- 

 ed sides and deflected fore-corners, slightly convex, rather finely and 

 densely punctated, in surface finely shagreened, sometimes with a feeble 

 longitudinal impression posteriorly before the scutellum; elytra /J? long- 

 er than pronotum, with dense and fine scabrous punctation, their poster- 

 ior margin inside the outer corners feebly incurved; abdomen more glisten- 

 ing than forebody, its first three free dorsal joints distinctly and rath- 

 er densely , punctated, the fourth with scattered punctation, the fifth al- 

 most smooth. L. 2.5-3 mm. 



In the o^the sixth free dorsal joint of abdomen with four teeth, of 

 which the middle pair are obtuse and a little shorter than the corner 

 teeth (Fig. 56). 



Distributed in North and Middle Europe, not rare in this country, but 

 somewhat local, in fungi; most frequent in the autumn and sometimes nu- 

 merously; more rarely at outflowinj tree-sap and carrion. 



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