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27. Subgenus Ptychandra ^Janglb. 



8&. H. hepatlca 3r. 



(Erichs. len. Spec. Staph. lOii; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 268; Thorns. Skand. 

 Col. IX. 262; Sharp Rev. Erlt. Horn. 186; t/.uls. et Rey Brevip. 1873, 613; 

 Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 202. - exarata Sharp Rev. Brit, Horn. 186). 



A rather prominent and characteristic species with rather broadly 

 separated middle coxae, sharply marginate temples and genae, four trane- 

 versally grooved abdominal joints and slender hind tarsi, of which the 

 first Joint is proportionately long; further identifiable by the coarse 

 punctation of the forebody and by the sex-characters of the O . It varies: 

 A smaller form with finer punctation, exarata Sharp, occurs. 



Black or pitch-black, rather finely grayish-yellow finely haired; fore- 

 body with the elytra feebly, abdomen rather strongly glistening; elytra 

 broHnish-red , most often darker at base; tip of abdomen and often also 

 the posterior margins of its other joints brownish or brownish-yellow; 

 the antennae and maxillary palpi rust-red, often darker at base; legs 

 yellowish-red. 



The head, pronotum and elytra densely and especially finely shagreen- 

 ed in surface and due to this with feeble or modulated shine. The head 

 is much narrower than pronotum, rounded, with rather small, slightly pro- 

 truding eyes and sharply marginate temples and jenae, most often *ith 

 rather coarse, but flat and not dense punctation, sometimes finer or even 

 indistinctly punctated, in the O as a rulu somev^hat flatly depressed at 

 middle, in the © convex; the antennae rather long, robust, but not strong- 

 ly thickened distally, their second and third joints of same length, elon- 



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