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35. Subgenus Amischa Thorns. 



ICC. H. analls Jravh. 



(Jravh. Micr. 76; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 332; 3en. Spec. Staph. il4; 



Kraatz Ins. D. II, 256; Sharp Rev. Brit. Horn. 175; Wuls. et Fey Brevip. 



1875, 92; Ganglb. Kaf. M. II, 214. - ? platycephala Thorns. Skand. Col. 

 III. 294). 



A small, rather evenly broad and slightly convex species with small 

 eyes and comparatively long temples, and in which the principle charac- 

 ters furthermore lies in the shape of the head, punctation of abdomen and 

 the form of the next-last abdominal joints; in color and size it is some- 

 what variable. 



Black, very finely haired, with feeble silky, somewhat modulated shine; 

 pronotum, elytra and abdominal tip pitch orown or reddish-brown, occasi- 

 onally yellowish-red; antennae most often brownish with brownish-yellow 

 base, sometimes entirely brownish-yellow; mouth-parts and legs darker or 

 lighter brownish yellow. 



The head (Fig. 74) is a little narrower than pronotum, broadest pos- 

 teriorly with plump, rounded temples and rounded-off hind corners, anteri- 

 orly narrowing and with very small, not protruding eyes, so that the shape 



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 becomes short oviform triangular; the temples are at least three times as 

 long as the eyes, dorsal side of the head convex, with rather dense and 

 extremely fine scarcely visible punctation, in both sexes without impres- 

 sions; antennae rather short, slightly thickened distally, their third 

 Joint shorter than the second, the fourth as broad as long, the middle ones 

 feebly, the next-last distinctly/ transverse, 1^ times as broad as long, 



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