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 punctation, both with much sparser punctation than in angustula. L. 3.5- 

 4 mm. 



In the 3* the fourth free dorsal joint of abdomen on dorsal side pos- 

 teriorly most often with 2 very small ^-rains, but the fifth with two trans- 

 verse rows of larger elongate grains, 4-6 in each row; posterior margin 

 of the sixth joint with 4 small teeih (Fig. 61). 



Under the bark on stubs and on half dead deciduous and pinacious 



trees, distributed in all our woodland regions, and not rare. North and 



Middle Europe. 



75. H. linearis CJravh. 



(3ravh. Micr. 69; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, ZT-Z; :Jen. Spec. Staph. PI; 

 Kraatz Ins. E. II, 240; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 291; Sharp P.ev. Brit. Horn. 

 154; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1873, 653; 5anglb. Kaf. M. II, 207). 



Very closely allied to both the preceding species and like these of 

 rather even breadth and slightly depressed, most like aequata , from which 

 it however is easily separated by ..somewhat glistening' and rathej- distinct- 

 ly punctated head and pronotum, also more robustly punctated elytra, fur- 

 ther by the difference between the characters of the 0&. 



Black, finely haired, somewhat glistening; elytra brown; tip of ab- 

 domen brownish-red; antennae brownish or rust-red, their base, the raouth- 

 parts and legs reddish-yellow. 



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The h««i1 t^nd pronotum extremely finely shagreened in turf ace, there- 

 fore with modulated shine, but never as dull as ae-iuate . The head ie broad, 

 a little narrower thwn pronotum, with fine and scattered punctation, in 



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