(Page 206'^ 

 as elytra, and as lon^ as broad, hardly narrowing posteriorly, with smooith- 

 ly rounded, single bristle-haired sides, convex, particularly finely and 

 rather densely punctated, with" a small fovea posteriorly before scutel- 

 lum, and a feeble, sometimes indistinct longitudinal groove in middle- 

 line; elytra scarcely longer than pronotum, together fully as broad as 

 long, very finely and very densely punctated. The first three free dorsal 

 joints of abdomen with fine and dense, the two following more scattered, 

 but fully as distinct punctation. L. 3.5-4 mm. 



In the 3' the next-last ventral joint of abdomen considerably elonga- 

 te, feebly narrowing, at tip broadly rounded off or slightly emarginate. 



A highland and also northern species, especially distributed in the 

 Scottish Highlands and Finland, but also found in the mountainous regi- 

 ons of Pohemia, and in later years frequently found in this country, in 

 the northen part of Jutland on miry forest and meadow ground under leaves 

 and in alluvium, rarer In North Zealand (Berllemosen, HillerjJd et al.). 

 - Together with H. islandica . Aubei . curtiper.nis et al. it should apparent- 

 ly be included among the remnants of an older, subglacial insect fauna, of 

 which traces are found here and there in Jutland and North Sjaelland. 



(Page 207) 

 114. H. hygrotopora Kr. 



(Kraatz Ins. D. II, 220; Sharp Pev. Brit. Horn. 120; Janglb. Kaf. V,. II, 

 225. - opacula Thorns. Skand. Col. IX, 272. - hyjjrobla I/uls. et Fey Brivip. 



Rather broad and robust, closely allied to H. elon,:atula , but consider- 

 ably broader, larger and more robuEt, as a rule also darker and the fore- 

 body more dully glistening; in combination with form and color recognized 

 by the sex-characters of the o^ . 



-360- 



