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 feebly rounded, single bristle-haired sides, flatly convex, especially 

 finely, densely punctated, often with a feeble icapression posteriorly 

 before scutellum, sometimes also with feeble medial groove; elytra //j 

 longer than pronotum, together broader than long, very finely and densely 

 punctated; abdomen glistening, its first three free dorsal joints finely 

 and rather densely punctated, the fourth with scattered, the fifth sparse 

 and indistinct punctation, longer than the fourth, L. 4-4.5 mm. 



In the ^ the next-last ventral joint of abdomen strongly prolonged 

 and strongly upwardly curved, the sides incised and therefore narrowed, 

 Xha tip itself broadly truncated and emarginate; in the ^ the same joint 

 only feebly elongate, rounded off at tip. Posterior margin of the sixth 

 free dorsal joint in both sexes feebly incurved at middle. 



On damp forest or meadow ground, at watering places and brooks and 



like places, distributed in North and Mid'He Europe; rather rare in this 



country, but found in diverse parts of the country, mostly singly. 



43. Subgenus Thinobaena Thoras. 



12C. H. vestltft jravh. 



(Oravh. Mon. 140; Erichs. CJen. Spec. Staph. 84; Kraatz. Ins. D. II, 

 208; Sharp Pev. Brit. Horn. 126; Muls. et Fey Er^vlp. 1R73, 557; 'ianglb. 

 Kaf. M. II, 170.- guis^iuiliarum Thoms. Skand. c;ol. Ill, £9). 



In appearance and form most like H.elongatula , but often considerably 

 larger and more robust, and with shorter, leas slender antennae, also more 

 sparsely punctated, more glistening abdomen, of which the fifth free dor- 

 sal Joint is scarcely longer than the fourth; among the r^loeest allied 

 species furthermore identified especially by the rather coarse punctation 

 of the head, and the posteriorly narrowing form of pronotum. 



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