(Pa-e 163) 

 Very rare in t'iddle Europe and southern England. Its occurence in this 

 country is yet doubtful; a single find (^^ ) in cand. Schlick's collec- 

 tion, without close discription, can perhaps be assigned to this species. 



17. Subgenus Xenota Muls. et Eey. 

 61. H. myrmecobia Kr. 



(Kraatz Ins. E. II, 285; Ihoms. Skand. Col. IX, 278; fJIuls. et Pey Bre- 

 vip. 1873, 3&8; Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 184). 



At first glance its appearance reminds you somewhat of H. fungi , from 

 which it however without difficulty is separated by, that the body is less 



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 glistening, head smaller and more flat, pronotum more feebly convex, el- 

 ytra as a rule shorter, and abdomen posteriorly less tapering. 



Pitch-olack or black, modulated or dull shine, very finely haired; el- 

 ytra brown, sometimes pronotum also brownish; antennae pitch-brown with 

 somewhat lighter base; mouth-parts and legs reddish or brownish yellow. 

 In the teneral insects only the head and abdominal next-last Joints pitch- 

 black, the rest of the body and the elytra are reddish-brown, antennae 

 yellow-red or rust-red. 



The head small, much narrower than pronotum, punctation indistinct or 

 particularly fine and scattered, sometimes {o^ ?) flatly depressed at mid- 

 dle and with a feeble groove in medial line; the antennae hardly longer 

 than head and j.ronotum togother, slightly thickened distally, their third 

 joint as long as, or u little shorter than the second, conical and at tip 

 as thick as the fourth, this as long as broad, the following (5-10) Increas- 

 ingly transverse, so that the next-last' l:ecome about tvjice as broad as long; 



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