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19. Subgenus i/ilcrodota Muls. et Pey. 



63. H. palleola Er. 



(Erichs. Kaf. Ilk. Br. I, 333; ien. Spec. Staph. 115; Kraatz "ns. D. 

 II. 259; Sharp Pev. Brit. Horn. 181; Thorns. Opusc. II, 131, IV 376; Muls. 

 et Rey Brevip. 1873, 305; CJanglb. Kaf. M. II, 192). 



A very small species, predominatingly reddish-yellow and extremely 

 fine punctation, within the subgenus mainly identified by the color. 



Olistening, very finely haired; head black, pronotum reddish-yellow; 

 elytra reddish or brownish-yellow; middle joints of abdomen black or 

 pitchy brown, its base and tip reddish-yellow; antennae distally dark, 

 their base, and the le^s yellow; in dark animals abdomen, with exception 

 of the tip, almost entirely black. 



Head rounded, proportionately large, almost as broad as pronotum, in- 

 distinctly punctated; antennae as long as head and pronotum together, rath- 

 er strongly thickened distally, their third joint much shorter and smaller 

 than the second, the following from the fourth to the tenth smoothly in- 

 creasingly transverse, so that the next-last become over twice as broad 

 as long; distal joint short oval. Pronotum is Ij times as broad as long, 

 a little narrower than elytra with smoothly rounded sides, extremely fine- 

 ly or indistinctly punctated, flatly convex, posteriorly at middle-line 

 slightly grooved; ely tra '/? longer than pronotum, particularly finely and 

 rather densely punctated, ihts surface extremely finely shagreened; abdom- 

 inal first three free dorsal joints with especially fine and very isolat- 

 ed punctation, the two following almost smooth, the fifth longer than the 

 fourth. L. 1.5 mm. 



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