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 dorsal side flatly convex, very finely and densely punctated, medial 

 line feebly grooved; elytra flat, f /^ longer than pronotum, punctated 

 about same as this; abdomen evenly troad, its first three free dorsal 

 Joints finely and rather densely, the following sparsely punctated, the 

 fifth joint much longer than the fourth. L. 3-3.5 mm. 



Ir the o the next-last ventral joint of abdomen strongly elongated 

 ana reafttes considerably out under the sixth free dorsal joint of abdomen, 

 its sides are nearly parallel and the tip very broadly rounded pff (Fig. 

 68). In the O the next-last ventral joint is much shorter with obtuse 

 angular tip. 



In meadows and other damp ground; in most places rather rare. North 



and (/.iddle Europe. 



81. H. falliciosa Sharp. 



(Sharp Pev. Brit, Horn. 186$, 157; IJanglb. Kaf. II, 226.- ? parca Muls. 

 et Key Bre'vip. 1875. 285). 



Most closely related to debilis, but of somewhat more robust struc- 

 ture, more convex, darker of color and hardly as glistening; the head is 

 narrower and more rounded, the sex-characters of the 'S are differently 

 formed. It is like one of the many forms of H. melanocera . but is sepa- 

 rated especially by more robust antennae, of which the four-five next- 

 last joints are distinctly transverse, also by the shorter tip of meso- 

 sternum. 



Black, finely haired, somewhat glistening; elytra brownish or pitch- 

 brown; abdominal tip brownish yellow; The antennae durkly yellowish-brown 

 or pitch-brown with lighter uase; legs yellow. 



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