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 scattered, indistinctly shagreened; abdomen almost impunctate, its fifth 

 free dorsal ^oint not longer than the fourth. L. 3-3.5 mm. 



In the o the next-last ventral joint of abdomen triangularly taper- 

 ing; in the O the same joint is broadly rounded off and its posterior 

 margin often feebly incurved at middle. 



Distributed throughout North and Middle Europe, but all over very rare; 



in this country so far only found singly in Sattrup forest at Alssund 



('Vustnei) . 



96. H. splendens Kr. 



(Kraatz Ins. D. II, 246; Sharp Pev. Erit. Hom. 163j Ganglb. Kaf. M. 

 II, 212). 



Narrow, elongate and of even breadth, also identifiable by small eyes 

 and the very polished, almost impunctate dorsal sirface of the body. 



Pitch-black or pitchy brown, very sparsely an;? finely haired, very 

 strongly glistening or polished; elytra yellowish-brown; the tip of abdon.- 

 en and its foremost joints most often lighter than the next-last, reddish- 

 brown, the tip sometimes brownish-yellow; antennae and mouth-parts red- 

 dish-yellow; the legs yellow. 



(Pa^e 193) 



Head and pronotum impunctate and very faintly shagreened, the head 

 as broad as pronotum or only insignificantly narrower, rather convex, 

 with small eyes and longer, feebly rounded temples; llie untennae as long 

 as head and pronotum together, rather robust, thickened distally, their 

 third Joint about as long as the second, the following (4-10) Increasingl-y 



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