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 Distributed in forests, but not frequent, in frass* under the bark 

 of attacked trees,' especially pinaceous trees, but also beech and oak; 

 more rarely at outflowing tree sap. In North and Kiddle Europe, 



Fourth Series. 



The common characters for the species of this series consist espe- 

 cially in this, that the eyes are peculiarly small and under normal size; 

 in connection with this the temples are long, much longer than the eyes. 

 - Abdomen rather of even breadth, and only its first three free dorsal 

 segments are transversally grooved at base. 



The temples and genae are entirely margined in subgenus Ousipalia , 

 in the rest of the subgenera either not at all or incompletely margined; 

 the antennae in our species more or less robust and thickened distally, 

 their outer joints sometimes very strongly transverse. Pronotum varies 

 in shape, in most cases broader than long. In a few subgenera ( Jeostiba. 

 Ousipalia) the elytra are distinctly shorter than pronotum, in the rest 

 either as long as this or longer. The fifth free dorsal joint of abdomen 

 in several cases (subg. M e o tica , Parameotica ) distinctly longer than the 

 fourth. Middle coxae almost contiguous or very narrowly separated and the 

 mesosternal tip reaches ordinarily midway between the coxae; it is short- 

 est in Parameotica , which thereby approaches the subg. Hy^roecia . 



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 32. Subgenus Aleuonota Thoms. 

 95. H. rufotestacea Kr. 



(Kraatz Ins. -. II, 245; Sharp Pev, Brit. 'Jom. 163; Tuls. et Pay 



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•Lilerally - gnawlngs, tr. 



