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 168; ^an^^lb. Kaf. M. II, 227. - ,^rlsea Thorns. Ofv. Vet. Ac. Forh. 1S52, 137). 



In regard to size, color, entennal strength etc. very variable, most 

 closely allied to elogjiatula ; like this it is slencler and elongate, but 

 more convex and cylindrical, with smaller and narrower head than same, 

 and with more robust antennae, and longer elytra, and thereby easily iden- 

 tified within the subgenus. 



Black or pitch-black, glistening, finely gray-haired; pronotum often 

 pilch-brown, and the elytra as a rule reddish-brown or brownish, occasi- 

 onally yellowish-brown, last joint of abdomen and posterior margins of 

 the rest of the joints most often yellowish-brown; antennae pitch-brown 

 or reddish-brown, their base, the mouth-parts and legs reddish-yellow. 



Head, pronotum and elytra at surface extremely finely shagreened and 

 thereby with somewhat modulated shine. The head is rather small, oval, 

 with very feebly protruding eyes, which are a little shorter than the 

 temples, slightly convex, with extremely fine, isolated punctation and 

 often with a feeble, short groove at middle; antennae rather long, more 

 or less slender, and more or less thickened dlstally, always more robust 

 than in elon-^atula , sometimes remarkably robust, their third joint short- 

 er than the second, middle ones sometimes as long as broad or longer, 

 sometimes feebly transverse, the next-last most often distinctly broader 

 than lonj, distal joint thick, obtuse at tip. Pronotum is a little nar- 

 rower than elytra, as lonj as broad, not narrowing posteriorly, with slight- 

 ly rounded sides anteriorly, convex, particularly finely, densely punc- 

 tated and with a small feeble transverse fovea posteriorly before the ecu- 

 tellum, and moat often with a dislincv, komatliMB entire longitudinal groove 



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