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88. H. excellens Kr. 



(Kraatz Ins. D. II, 235; Sharp Rev. Brit. Horn. 146; Janglb. K&f . M. 

 II, 203). 



Like the preceding species very closely allied to occulta , with whid"! 

 it inter alia agrees in punctation of the body, the impressions of head 

 and pronotum, color of the legs etc. As a rule it is somewhat smaller, 

 forebody somewhat more feebly shagreened in surface and therefore more 

 glistening, elytra darker, antennae a little shorter; pronotum proporti- 

 onately broader, elytra a little shorter; but it is especially the char- 

 acters of the sixth free dorsal joint of abdomen in the ©which makes it 

 easy to identify. In relation to monticola , to which it is most closely 

 allied, and from which the _^ is rather difficult to separate, it is like- 

 wise most surely determined by the differences in the sex-characters of 

 the OO' It is however also ordinarily smaller than same; the head is 

 less broad, considerably n^irrower than pronotum, this is likewise narrow- 

 er and only //^broader than long. L. 3 mm. 



In the 5'^ the sixth free dorsal joint of abdomen on dorsal side with 

 a slightly arcuate transversal row of small, more or less distinct granules 

 which often are confluent, forming a transversal carina. Back of this the 

 sides and posterior margin are turned upward and sharply bounded, and pos- 

 terior margin at middle with a sharp angular incision. 



Distributed in the mountainous regions of Lliddle Europe and in N'orth 

 Europe (Scotland, Iceland, Norway, Finland). In Denmark here"lof ore apparent- 

 ly only observed at Hlller(*d, where I found a few specimens under a dead 

 bird, together with monticola (6. 1911). 



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