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 of a lighter brown color; the head, pronotum and elytra is more finely 

 shagreened and punctated and somewhat more glistening, pronotum seems 

 a little shorter and is more flatly convex than in hepatica . The sex- 

 characters in the <?* and ^ are (t. Janglb.) alike in both. 



Distributed in Middle Europe, England and South Sweden. In this 

 country the species is very rare and heretofore only found in smal num- 

 bers and singly, the typical form in Tisvilde Hegn, Boserup forest (Fosen- 

 berg, 5. 1897 and 5. 1399) and Jrib forest (Engelhart, 6. 1909), the smal- 

 ler form at S^zfnderborg (V/utnei), Silkeborg (E. Petersen 10. 1904) and 

 Hiller(!(d (Author 6. 1905) under leaves, fagot and loose bark on stubs and 

 trunks. Said also to occur with ants, especially Lasius fuliginosue. (Sharp) 

 28. Subgenus Plataraea Thorns. 

 90. K. brunnea Fabr. 



(Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. 180; Srichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 326; Sen. Spec 

 Staph. 98; Kraatz Ins. 2. II, 265; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 46; Sharp Fev. 

 Brit. Horn. 184; Muls. et Fey Brevip. 1873, 666; Janglb. Kaf. U. II, 204.- 

 depressa xravh. Micr. 100; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 45). 



One of our most noticeable and handsome Homalota species (Fig. 71), 

 rather broad and slightly depressed, in connection with the four trans- 

 versally grooved dorsal joints of abdomen, especialy recojniced by the 

 color, rather small eyes and sex-characters of the &. 



Feddish-yellow, somewhat glisteninj, rather finely and sparsely huir- 

 ei; Ihe hoaa, anu the next-last, often also the middle Joints of abdomen 

 at middle of base black or blackish-brov^n; pronotum sometimes brownish 

 with lighter margins; tiie elytra brownish-yellov. , most often darker around 

 scutellum; antennae dlstally pitch-black or pitch-brown, their base ana 



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