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in England. In this country seemingly very rare and local, heretofore 



found only in North Zealand«under fagot and in hollow trees. (5. 04; 



6. 07; Hillerpd, Lyngby. Author). 



29. Subgenus Alianta Thorns. 



92. H. incana Sr. 



(3richs. Kaf. I-k. Br. I, 329; ien. Spec. Staph. 109; Kraatz Ins. D. 

 II, 236; Ihoms. Skand. Col. 44; Sharp Rev. Brit. Horn. 150; Muls. et Fey 

 Bre'vip. 1673, 170; Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 205). 



A characteristic species with rather broadly separated middle-coxae; 

 the mesosternum between these long and narrowly tapering; furthermore 

 identifiable by the color of body, the four dorsal joints of abdomen which 

 are transversally grooved at base, and the rather coarse, granulate punc- 

 tation of abdomen, also by the sex-characters of the o . 



Black, often bluish-black, dull gloss, very finely and rather densely 

 gray-haired; antennae distally toward tip pitch-black or pitch-brownish, 

 their lower half reddish-yellow; the legs pitch colored with red knees 

 and tarsi. (Page 189) 



The head, pronotum and elytra particularly densely shagreened in sur- 

 face and due thereto of dull shine; the head a little narrower thun pro- 

 notum, rounded, with slightly protruding eyes, rather fine and isolated, 

 flat punctation, at middle occasionally slightly impressed, mora often 

 with short and fine groove; antennae as long as head and pronotum togeth- 

 er, rather strongly thickened distally, bristle-haired, their third Joint 

 a little shorter than the second, the fourth small, as long as broad, the 

 following (5-10) of same length, increasingly transverse, the next-last 



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