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 rare; at the brims of lakes, ponds and brooks in damp alluvium. (K/Slske 

 Dam in Vendsyssel, LangesizC at Silkeborgj Fuglevad, Sjaelland et al.)- 



129. H. pavens S richs. 



(Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 689; ^en. Spec. Staph. 85; Kraatz Ins. '^. 



II, 214; Sharp Rev. Brit. Horn. 98j Muls. et Bey Bre'vip. 1875, 220. - 

 sulcifrons Steph. (Janglb. Kaf. la. II, 235. - lissonura Thorns. Skand. Col. 



III, 9.) 



A little smaller than the preceding species, with shorter, compara- 

 tively more robust antennae and distinctly shorter elytra. 



Pitch-black or ds^rkly pitchy brown; forebody very finely and rather 

 densely haired, with feeble silky gloss, abdomen more sparsely haired and 

 more glistening; pronotum sometimes brownish-red; elytra darker or light- 

 er brown; abdominal tip brownish-red; antennae brownish or rust-red, their 

 base, mouth-parts and legs reddish-yellow. 



Head, pronotum and elytra especially finely shagreened in surface and 

 therefore with moderate shine; the head a little narrower than pronotum, 

 oval, with feebly protruding eyes, convex, densely and very finely punc- 

 tated, at middle soraetii.;es short and feebly grooved; antennae shorter 

 than in insecta , rather robust, but not strongly thickened distally, their 



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second and third joints of same length, elongate, the fourth and fifth 

 longer than broad, the two following as long as broad, the next-last feeb- 

 ly transverse, distal joint oblong oval, tapering. Pronotum is narrower 

 than elytra, as broad as long, distinctly narrowing posteriorly, with an- 

 teriorly rounded sides, rather convex, eppeclally finely and densely punc- 

 tated, with u more or less distinct medial groove and a small transverse 



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