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Distributed in North and Middle Europe; in this country very rare 



and local, under leaves on wet forest (ground and in alluvium (Sk/tfrping 



Holme, and Staovlund at Aalbor.;; BjiJllemosen at Copenhagen; on the strand 



below Hammeren, Bornholm, et al.). 



126. H. ^'rani-:era Kiesw. 



(Kiesenw. Stett. Ent. Ztg. 185C, 218; Kraatz. Ins. D. II, 207; 5anglb. 

 Kaf. M. II, 173. - crassicornis (Jyllh. Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 56; Sharp 

 Rev. Brit. Horn. 135; Muls. et Ray Brevip. 1873, 600). 



Closely allied ta the following species, pagane , but somewhat smaller 

 and darker of color, also with shorter antennae, of which the next-last 

 joints, are a little broader than long, further recognized by the sex- 

 characters of the o^ . 



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Black or pitch-black, glistening, finely haired; pronotum sometimes 

 pitchy brownish; elytra brownish yellov;, darkly shaded around scutellum 

 and on the sides; tip of abdomen and posterior margins of its joints some- 

 times brownish; antennae pitch-biaok or pitch-brown with reddish -ye How 

 base; legs reddish yellow. 



The head, pronotum and elytra very finely shagreened in surface; the 

 head more glistening than pronotum, narrower than this, roundly-oval, 

 with scarcely protrudinj eyes, rather coarse, very flat and not dense 

 punctation; antennae rather long, distinctly and smoothly thickened dls- 

 tally, their second fir.a third joints elongate and the third longer then 

 the second, the middle ones (4-6) longer than broad, the nexi-last a little 

 broader than long, distal Joint ne long as the two preceding Joints to- 



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