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A smaller (L. 2 rani), very closely allied species, H. laticeps Thorns. 

 ( pumila Kr.)» is found in Skaane (Thorns.). Tne antennae are shorter, but 

 the elytra longer than in complana , \'i's times as lonjj as pronotum. It 

 is distributed throughout middle Europe and might possibly be encounter- 

 ed in this country also. 



Fifth Series. 



The common character, which especially distinguishes and therefore 

 unites the species of this series is the elongate, slender antennae, of 

 which the middle and next-last Joints are longer than broad, as long as 

 broad or even in a very slight degree transverse. A few species such as 

 vilis 3r., terminalis 5ravh. and hypnorum Kiesw., in which the next-last 

 antennal joints are more distinctly transverse, show by the rest of their 

 appearance, that their most natural place here is in connection with 

 their closest relatives. 



In most of the species the teljmples and genae are marginal either 

 entirely or at least posteriorly, only in subgenera Aloconotr. , ilossula . 

 Hydro smecta and ^nypeta not at all. The eyes as a rule are normally 

 large, never very small as in the species of the fourth series. Pro- 

 notum most often as long as broad or only very feebly transverse; elytra 

 longer than pronotum; abdomen evenly broad, occasionally somewhat taper- 

 ing posteriorly ( Aloconola ) , its first fre dorsal Joints, rarely only the 

 first one (Dilacra), distinctly depressed at base. Middle-coxae are nar- 

 rowly separated in subgenera Pelurga and Liogluta , in the rest almost con- 

 tiguous, and tip of mesosternum reaches at least to middle between the 



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