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 body, its first four free dorsal joints distinctly but not strongly de- 

 pressed at base, the first three Joints with fine and scattered, the two 

 following with sparse or simple punctation. L. 2-2.5 mm. 



In the ^ the grooves of head and pronotum are deep, and the first 

 joint of the antennae strongly thickened; the sixth free dorsal joint of 

 abdomen at tip rather transversally truncated - in the ^ rounded off - 

 and in the o the next-last ventral joint is a little elongate and nar- 

 nowed, the tip rounded. 



Distributed in North and Middle Europe, especially in woodland regi- 

 ons; in fungi and at rotting plant matter; in this country rare or rath- 

 er rare. 



26. Subgenus Bessobia Thorns. 

 85. H. occulta ir. 



(Srichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 317; :Jen. Spec. Staph. 83; Kraatz Ins. D. 

 II, 233; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 43; Sharp Fev. Brit. Hom. 143; Muls. et 

 Eey Ere'vip. 1875, 131; Sanglb. Kaf. K. II, 202). 



Father elongate and of even breadth, in form not unlike H. elongatul a, 

 however easily separated from same inter alia by the four, at base trans- 

 versally grooved, dorsal joints of abdomen, the sex-characters of the o 

 and tne more robust, entirely black antennae. 



Elack, rather finely haired; the head, pronotum and elytra with rath- 

 er feeble gloss, abdomen very glistening; the elytra in adult animals 

 pitch-brown with black reflection, and the legs darkly brownish-yellow; 

 in less mature animals the elytra are brownish yellow, the legs lighter, 

 and pronotum and abdominal tip sometimes pitch-brownish. 



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