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 the two following simply and indistinctly punctated. L. 2.5-3 mm. 



Besides the distinctive impressions on head and pronotuir, the sixth 

 free dorsal joint of abdomen in the O is at tip broadly incurved and 

 the corners almost rectangular. The next-last ventral joint is some- 

 what elongate and rounded off at tip. (Fig. 65). 



Distributed in Europe, and in this country not rare at tree-sap. in 

 compost and at fungi; in hollow poplars and other trees, which are attack- 

 ed by the Gossus larvae, where it often is very numerous in burrows of 

 the larvae and in gnaw-crumblings.' 



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 22. Subgenus Slnaraea T horns. 

 77. H. angustula Jyll. 



((Jyllh. Ins. Suec. II, 393; iirichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 322; ien. Spec. 

 Staph. 91; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 233; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 290; Sharp Rev. 

 Brit. Hom. 153; Muls. et Pey Ere'vip. 1873, 649; Ganglb. Kaf. M. II, 206). 



Elongate, evenly broad and slightly depressed, feebly glistening, 

 with entirely Iramarglnate temples and genae like the two following spe- 

 sies, but in relation to tiiese identified especially by denser punctatl- 

 on of the fourth and fifth free dorsal joints of abdomen. 



Black, very finely haired, feebly or moderately glistening; pronotum 

 often brownish-red, as a rule black or pitch-brownish; elytra yellowish 

 brown or yellowish-red, darkly shaded around scutellum; the abdominal tip 

 and for^^most joints sometimes orownish-red; antennae pitch-brownish, their 

 base, mouth-parts and lege reddish-yellow. 



Forebody extremely finely ahagreened in surface and due thereto with 



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