(?8he 211) 

 base; tip of abdomen more or less broadly, and sometimes also posterior 

 margins of its joints reddish-yellov. ; antennae pitch colored, their base, 

 mouth-parts and legs reddish yellow. 



Both forebodjf and abdomen are extremely finely shagreened in surface 

 and therefore feebly ^listenin^. The heaa is narrower than pronotum, broad- 

 ly oval, with normally large, feebly protruding eyes, convex, very finely 

 and not densely punctated, at middle sometimes short grooved; antennae 

 rather long and slender, feebly thickened distally, their second and third 

 joints elongate, of same length, the middle ones (4-6) longer than broad, 

 thi next-last feebly transverse, obconic, distal joint long-oval, taper- 

 ing. Pronotum a little narrower than elytra, as long as broad, not narrov. - 

 ing posteriorly, with feebly rounded sides bearing single outstanding brist- 

 les, slightly convex, especially finely, densely punctated and with a fine 

 more or less distinct longitudinal groove in middle-line; elytra //? long- 

 er than pronotum, very finely and very densely punctated. The first three 

 free dorsal joints of abdomen finely and densely punctated, the two fol- 

 lowing with scattered or sparse punotation, the fifth longer than the fourth. 

 L. 4-4.5 mm. 



In the 3^ the next-last ventral joint of abdomen considerably elongate 

 and tapering, the tip itself truncated and flatly emarginate. In the o 

 the posterior margins of the same joint and of the sixth free dorsal joint 

 rounded off. 



On damp meadow and forest ground; distributed throughout North and 

 Middle Europe; rather rare and local in this country (Aalborg, Sk^rping 



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