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next-last ventral Joint of abdomen is considerably elongate, smoothly 



tapering and with feebly rounded sides, rounded off at tip; it distinctly 



reaches forward under the last tergite. 



Distributed throughout the greater part of Europe. In Denmark it is 



found in various parts of the country at water-courses, lake shores and 



on the strand, under damp leaves and alluvium, often numerous; somewhat 



local, but as a whole not rare. 



115. H. elon,^8tula ^ravh. 



(Gravh. Micr. 79; Srichs. Kaf. Mk. Er. I, 320; len. Spec. Staph. 8S 

 (in part); Kraatz Ins. D. II, 216; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 67; Sharp Rev. 

 Brit. Kom. 121; I.'uls. et Rey Bre'vip. 1875, 164; Janglb. Kaf. 'A. II, 225). 



Very variable in size and color, but especially identified by the 

 elongate, slender, rather evenly broad and flatly convex form of the body, 

 antennal structure, and the sex-characters of the 3*. (Fig. 78). 



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Black or pitch-black; rather glistening and finely haired; pronotum 

 often brownish; elytra reddish-brown, yellowish-brown or brown, most oft- 

 en darker at base, sometimes entirely pitch-brown; tip of abdomen brown- 

 ish or brownish-yellow; the antennae brownish, sometimes rust-red, their 

 base, mouth-parts and legs reddish yellow. 



The head, pronotum and elytra extremely finely shagreened in surface 

 and therefore with somewhat modulated shine. The head is narrower than 

 pronotum, roundly oval, with normally large, scarcely protruding eyes, 

 convex, particularly finely and not densely punctated, sometimes with a 

 small, feeble fovea; antennae slender and rather long, scarcely thicken- 

 ed distally, their second ond third joints elongate, of same length or 



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