(Paie 168) 



Black, especially finely haired; forebody feebly, abdomen rather strong- 

 ly jlistenlns; elytra often brownish; legs pitch-brown or yellowish-brown 

 with darker femora. 



The head nearly as broad as pronotum, extremely finely or indistinctly 

 punctated, in the ^slightly grooved at middle; antennae short and robust, 

 their third Joint much shorter and narrower than the second, obconic, the 

 following from 4-10 increasingly transverse, so that the next-last become 

 twice as broad as long; distal joint as long as the two preceding joints 

 together. Pronotum is very little narrower than elytra, 1^ times as broad 

 as long, scarcely narrowing posteriorly, with feebly rounded sides, slight- 

 ly convex, densely and very finely, yet distinctly punctated; elytra k~'',s 

 longer than pronotum, very finely and densely, somewhat more distinctly 

 punctated than pronotum; abdomen evenly broad, its first three free dorsal 

 joints with rather dense, very fine somewhat scabrous punctation, the fol- 

 lowing almost smooth. L. 1.2(-2) mm. 



In the d'the sixth free dorsal Joint of abdomen at tip feebly emargi- 

 nated, and the next-last ventral joint short triangularly tapering (Thorns., 

 Janglb. ) . 



It is distributed in North and ::entral liurope also England and will 

 probably also be found in this country, where it however has not at pres- 

 ent been incountered. Reported to occur especially in the soil unaer car- 

 rion, but also at manure and rotten plants. Thomson gives its length as 2 

 mm, and that of sericea (umicula) as 1.5 mm. 



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