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 dull, posteriorly broadly truncated with rounded corners and slightly 

 incurved posterior margin, an sides and posteriorly bounded by an elevate 

 sharp margin, which is higher on sides than on posterior margin. The 

 next-last ventral joint is somewhat elongate and rounded at tip (Fig. 69). 

 In the jp the sixth free dorsal joint at tip as a rule distinctly, but 

 feebly incurved. 



Distributed in North and Middle Europe; in this country rare or lo- 

 cal. It is found especially in fungi and compost, but also at manure, 

 offal and carrion. 



86. H. fungivora Thorns. 



(Thoms. Skand. Col. IX, 260; Sharp Rev. Brit. Horn. 144; ianglb. Kaf. 

 U. II, 203. - gibbera Wuls. et Rey Br^vip. 1875, 141). 



Much like the preceding species, from which it however without dif- 

 ficulty can be separated by the following deviations; 



It is ordinarily a little smaller, the antennae a little more thlck- 

 enea toward tip and their middle Joints (4-6) distinctly finer than in 

 occulta ; pronotura is proportionately narrower and posteriorly distinct- 

 ly narrowing, especially in the o . L. 2.5-3 mm. 



In the o the head is broader and deeper impressed at middle between 

 the eyes than in the O of occulta ; dorsal side of the sixth free dorsal 

 Joint of abdomen not entirely smooth, but flatly longitudinally grooved 

 in middle-line, th^ sides as in occulta with elevate and sharp margins, 

 but posterior margin is flat and iramarginate, almost straight or feebly 

 rounded, and at middle with a suggestion of two small, closely placed 

 teeth. 



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