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 heretofore only found here and there in 'Zealand (Damhusmosen near Copen- 

 hagen, Frederiksdal, Hilleri^d, Lethrabort;, Lellinge) and at Odense. 



49. Subgenus Hydro smecta Thorns. 

 133. H. lon.::ula Reer. 



(Heer.Faun. Kelv. 234; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 13; Sharp Fev. Brit. 

 Horn. 105; (Janglb. Kaf. J.:. II, 232. - thinobioides Kraatz Ins. D. II, 228; 

 Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1875, 261). 



A very small, narrow, evenly broad and somewhat flatly depressed spe- 

 cies with lon^;, slender antennae, and extremely finely and very densely 

 punatated abdomen; from E. vilis , which it somewhat resembles, it is par- 

 ticularly separated by finer antennae, larger head and longer elytra.. 



Black, very finely 6'ray-haired, feebly or dully glistening; elytra 

 most often brownish; antennae and maxillary palpi pitch-brown or brown 

 with a little lighter base; the legs brownish yellow, most often with 

 darker femora. 



The head js large, about as broad as pronotum, with rather large, 

 scarcely protruding eyes, and posteriorly not narrowing temples, extre- 

 mely fine and very dense punctation, and with a more or less distinct 

 fovea or groove at middle; the antennae much longer than head and pro- 

 notum together, fine, filiform, their third Joint considerably shorter 

 than the second, the middle and next-last ones all e little longer than 

 broad, distal joint oval, fully as long as the tenth. Pronotum a little 

 narrower than elytra, as long as broad, scarcely narrowing posteriorly, 

 and with anteriorly very feebly rounded, posteriorly straight sides, ex- 

 tremely finely and densely punctated, and with a flat longitudinal im- 



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