(Page 162) 

 -arly strongly transverse; furthermore testaceipes is easily identified 

 by the sex-characters of the o . 



Glistening black, very finely haired; elytra lighter or darker yelloih- 

 brown, at base and on sides often shaded with black; abdominal tip feebly 

 brownish; antennal base and maxillary palpi brownish- or yellowish-red; 

 legs reddish-yellovy . In teneral animals pronotum and abdominal base red- 

 ■•dish-brown. 



The head is a little narrower than pronotum, roundly transverse, with 

 rather large and somewhat protruding eyes, with especially fine, scatter- 

 ed punctation, glistening; antennae short, as long as heaa and pronotum 

 together, from the fifth joint very robust, uut not thickened distally, 

 their third Joint shorter than the second, the fourth snail, transverse, 

 out only half as broad as the fifth; this is very little narrower than 

 the five following joints and these are nearly Z'i. times as broad as long; 

 distal joint tapering. Pronotum somewhat narrower than elytra, about twice 

 as broad as long, with smoothly rounded sides, deflected, rounded fore- 

 corners, and obtusely rounded— off hind corners, slightly convex, very fine- 

 ly and not densely punctated; elytra '/^ longer than pronotum, rather finely 

 and densely punctated; the first three free dorsal joints of abdomen with 

 fine and scattard, the two following very simple punctation, almost smooth. 

 L. 2.5 mm. (Page 162) 



In the ^ the posterior margin of the sixth free dorsal joint of abdom- 

 en (Fig. 5C) produced at middle and formed like a short, rather broad, at 

 tip. slightly rounded plate, upon which at upper part two small, smooth boss- 

 es are seen. The corners of posterior margin obtusely rounded off. (cf.ianglb. 



and Kraatz) . 



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