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on damp ground, both in and outside of woods; var. brunneipennis is very 



rare. 



45. Subgenus Lio'luta Thorns. 



122. H. vicina Steph. 



(Steph. 111. Irit. V, 116; Sharp Pev. Brit. Horn. 133; Ganglb. Kaf. M. 

 II, 172. - umbonata Erichs. Jen. Spec. Staph. 82; Kraatz, Ins. D. II, 209; 

 Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 56; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1873, 616). 



About of same size and form as graminicola , but a little more flatly 

 convex and with somewhat shorter, less slender antennae, especially rec- 

 ognized by the color of elytra and antennae, and by the peculiarities 

 of the sex-characters of the 6 • 



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Deeply black, finely haired, rather strongly glistening; elytra at 

 middle brownish yellow, at base, suture and on sides black or brownish 

 black; antennae and mouth-parts entirely black; legs bro'.\nlsh yellow 

 with darker femora. 



The head is narrower than pronotum, roundly oval, with rather large, 

 slightly protruding eyes; fine and very isolated punctatlon, smooth at 

 middle, strongly glistening; the antennae rather slender, feebly thicken- 

 ed dlstally, their second and third joints of same length, the fourth 

 longer than broad, the following and the next-last Joints of same length 

 and increasingly, feebly transverse, distal Joint as long as the two next- 

 last joints together, taperlnj. Pronotum is considerably narrower than 

 elytra, //J* broader than long, with smoothly rounded sides, end not nar- 

 rowing posteriorly, slightly cotrvex, with fine and isolated punctatlon, 



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