(Pa^e 164) 

 distal joint short, obtusely tapering. Pronotum as broad as elytra, 1^ 

 times as broad as long, with rather strongly rounded sides without out- 

 standing bristles, feebly convex, rather densely and finely punctated, 

 together with the head finely shagreened in surface and therefore with 

 dull shine, in medial line sometimes feebly, sometimes distinctly (o ?) 

 grooved. Elytra comparatively short, not longer than pronotum, with rather 

 fine and very dense scabrous punctation, their posterior margin inside the 

 outer corners not incurved; abdomen feebly narrowing posteriorly, its first 

 three free dorsal joints with fine and rather dense, the two following 

 with simple punctation. L. 2.5 ram. 



In the ^the posterior margin of the sixth free dorsal joint at middle 

 feebly emarginate and the next-last ventral joint somewhat more strongly 

 rounded than in the Q . 



It occurs in the mounds with ^'ormica rufa , but is not, as Kraatz holds, 

 a steady or true ant-guest; outside of the ant hiUs it is found on damp 

 forest and meadow ground under the plant cover; everywhere rare; I have 

 most frequently found it in the woods near Hillerpd at spring time, sift- 

 ed from damp leaves and leaf mold around small forest pools. North and 

 Central Europe. 



18. Subgenus Dochmonota Thoms. 

 62. H. clancula Er. 



(Srichs. Kaf. Llk. Br. I. 'i6\; et Spec. Staph. 114; Janglb. Kaf. W. II, 

 190. - atrata Kraatz Ins. D. II. £95. - fu nebris Thoms. Skand. Col. Ill, 

 19). 



A small, short and proportionately broad species, particularly distin- 



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