(Pa^e 188) 



Head, pronotum and elytra particularly finely shagreened in surface, 

 however more distinctly than in brunnea , therefore feebly or dully glis- 

 tening. The head is small, much narrower than pronotum, with small eyes, 

 rather fine and scattered punctation, flatly depressed at middle, in the 

 O often equally as strongly as in the O ; antennae same as in brunnea 

 or their outer joints somewhat more strongly transverse. Pronotum much 

 narrower than elytra, 1//:? times as broad as lon^j, with slightly rounded, 

 singly bristle-haired sides, with rather dense and fine, flat punctation, 

 at middle with a more or less distinct, broad longitudinal impression, 

 in the £ sometimes as distinct as in the c^ . Elytra -^'^f longer than prono^ 

 turn; densely and finely punctated and rather densely haired with feeble 

 or dull silky gloss; abdomen somewhat more densely punctated than in bru n- 

 nea, its first three free dorsal joints rather densely and finely, punc- 

 tated, the fourth with more isolated, the fifth with simple punctation; 

 the first f^ur free dorsal joints distinctly depressed at base. L. 4-4.5 mm. 



In the ^ the fifth and sixth free dorsal joints of abdomen smooth, 

 without prominent sex-characters such as in brunnea, the posterior mar- 

 gin of the sixth tergite of the O is however less rounded than in the ^ , 

 sometimes almost transversallly truncated, and feebly emarginate at mli- 

 dle; the next-last sternite of the d is slightly elongate, feebly narrow- 

 ing and rounded at tip. In the Q tae posterior margin of the same ventral 

 Joint at middle very finely incurved and in the margin with a row of fine 

 eiually long, light bristles. 



Distributed throughout Central Europe, also found in Sweden, but not 



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