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tofore found only in North Slaelland (Hilleriid, 4, 06 and later, author) 



on damp meadow and marshy ground. 



24. Subgenus Halobrectha Thorns. 



82. H. atricilla Scriba. 



(Scriba Berl. fint. Zeitschr. 1866, 2&0 (nee. Brlchs.). - flavipes 

 Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, (1861) 50; ^Janglb. Kaf. U. II, 210. - halobrectha 

 Sharp Rev. Brit. Kom. 139. - puncticeps tiuls. et Key Br^vip. 1875, 12 

 (nee. Thorns.)). 



This and the following species are distincguished by the coarse punc- 

 tation of the head, which easily separates them from the preceding spe- 

 cies in this series. In relation to the following species, atricilla is 

 especially identified by lighter antennae and le^-s, also by shorter elytra. 



Black or pitch-black, rather finely grayish-yellow haired and some- 

 what glistening; the elytra sometimes brownish; abdominal tip yellow or 

 brownish-yellow; antennae, mouth and legs reddish-yellow; the antennae 

 toward tip and the hind femora however are often orownish-yellow. 



The head, pronotum and elytra especially finely shagreened in surface 

 and due to this a little less shining than the abdomen; the head rather 

 large, almost as broad as pronotum and rounded off, coarsely but not dense- 

 ly punctated; antennae as long as head and pronotum together, distinctly 

 and smoothly thickened distally, finely bristle-haired, their third joint 

 shorter than the second, the fourth and fifth longer than broad, the sixth 

 as long as broad, the next-last four joints distinctly, but feebly in- 

 creasingly transverse, about twice as broad as lonj, distal Joint rather 

 short. Pronotum considerably narrower than elytra, about 1^ times as broad 

 as long, with anteriorly rounded sides, distinctly narrowing posteriorly 



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