(Pa-e 164) 

 juished by a short, broad pronotura, and the dense punctation of abdomen. 



Black, feeble or modulated gloss, finely haired; elytra often bro\^n- 

 ish; antennae pitch-black or pitch-brown, their base, mouth-parts and the 

 legs reddish-yellow. (Paje 165) 



The head is short and broad, somewhat narrower Ihan pronotum, slight- 

 ly convex, very finely and rather densely punctated; antennae short, their 

 third joint much shorter and finer than the second, the following from the 

 fourth to the tenth smoothly increasingly thickened, so that the next- 

 last become almost twice as broad as long; distal joint tapering oviform. 

 Pronotum nearly as broad as elytra, twice as broad as long, scarcely tap- 

 ering anteriorly, sides rounded, dorsum slightly convex, very finely and 

 densely punctated, medial line often distinctly grooved, its posterior mar- 

 gin inside the obtuse corners very slightly incurved; elytra ^/^ longer than 

 than pronotum, with very dense, fine scabrous punctation, their posterior 

 marjin inside* the outer corners distinctly incurved; abdomen finely and 

 densely punctated, the foremost dorsal joint somewhat more densely and dis- 

 tinctly punctated than the hinamost. L. 2 m^n. 



Ln the 5^the pronotal groove Is more distinct than in theO , other- 

 wise the difference between the sexes is scarcely noticeable. 



Under leaves on daa.p, swampy or marshy woodland ground, but everywhere 

 In North and Middle Kurope very rare; in this country heretofore found only 

 in Nordsjaelland (Pavnsnaes Forest, Donse, Freerslev Hegn, St. Dyrehave et 

 Hiller/Jd). 



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