(Pa^e 171) 



Distributed everywhere on damp ground under leaves and in alluvium, 



not rare; more rarely at carrion. 



21. Subgenus Traumoecia t'.uls. et Pey. 



72. H. angusticollis Thorns. 



(Thorns. Ofv. Vet. Ac. Forh. 1856; Skand. Col. Ill, 87; Sharp Rev. Brit. 

 Horn. 210; langlb. Kaf. K. II, 20C. - ravilla Kraatz Ins. D. II. 308; Wuls. 

 et Rey Bre'vip. 1873, 447). 



A rather narrow, elongate species with feebly thickened, rather long 

 antennae, further recoi^nized by the finely shagreened, feebly glistening 

 forebody, narrow pronotum and proportionately long elytra. 



Black, finely haired; forebody with feeble gloss, abdomen rather glis- 

 tening; elytra blackish-brown or brown; legs brownish-yellow with darker 

 femora. 



The head very little narrower than pronotum, about as long as broad, 

 with rather large, a little protruding eyes, indistinctly or very finely 

 punctated, and in the o* most often slightly depressed at middle; antennae 

 rather lon^, feebly thickened distally, their third joint as long as the 

 second, both elongate, the three followinj as long as broad, the next- 

 last (7-10) in the p distinctly, in thu^very feebly transverse, distal 

 ^oint as long as tha two preceding joints together, tapering. Pronotum 

 much narrower than elytra, hardly 1 O times as broad as long, very feebly 

 narrowinj posteriorly and with anteriorly slightly rounded sides with a 

 few outstanding side-bristles, feebly convex, densely and very finely punc- 

 tated and the surface as well as that of head and elytra very finely sha- 

 greened, and due to this with dull shine, most often feebly grooved at medial 



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