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112. H« Islandlca Kr. 



(Kraatz otett. Ent. Zeitg. XVIII, 1857, 284; Jan^lb. ?:af. K. II, 223. 

 - eremlta Bye, Sharp Eev. Brit. Horn. 16?). 



Father broad and flatly convex; within the subgenus especially iden- 

 tified by a peculiarly broad pronotum, which in combination with the some- 

 what tapering abdomen, gives it some likeness to a very large H. fungi or 

 orbata . 



Black or pitch-black, rather glistening, finely haired; elytra, pro- 

 notum and abdominal tip sometimes brownish; antennae and mouth-parts pitch- 

 black or brownish-red; legs brownish yellow with darker femora. 



The head is broadly rounded, with scarcely protruding, rather small 

 eyes, much narrower than pronotum, with scattered and very fine or indis- 

 tinct punctation; antennae rather long and slender, their second and third 

 joints elongate, equally long or the third longest, the middle ones (4-7) 

 longer than broad, the next-last as long as broad, distal joint about as 

 long as the two preceding joints together, tapering. Pronotum as broad as 

 or sometimes even a little broader than elytra; li times as broad as long, 

 with anteriorly deflected and slightly rounded, posteriorly more straight 

 sides, very finely and rather densely punctated, with a small fovea poste- 

 riorly before the scutellum, and most often also a feeble medial groove 

 issuing from the fovea; elytra somewhat longer than pronotum, together 

 broader than long, finely and densely punctated; abdomen somewhat tapering 



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 posteriorly, its first three free dorsal joints finely and rather densely 

 punctated, the two following v^itu scattered and evanescent punctation. 



L. 3-3.5 mm. 



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