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 Interval of temples 6imple and much more coarsely punctated than 

 the temples. Antennae, f/outh-parts and legs reddish-yellow. 

 L. 3.5-4 mm 8. U. obscurellus Er. 



1. Subgenus Medon s. str. 



1. M. castaneus Jravh. 



(Jravh. Micr. 60; Erlchs. Kaf. f«k. Br. I, 512; Jen. Spec. Staph. 

 610; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 711; Thorns. Skand. 3t>l. II, 205; Uuls et Rey 

 Brevip. 1878, 123; Sanglb. Kaf. M. II, 519). 



Our largest species, and besides this easily identified by slender 

 legs and long hind tarsi. 



Reddish-brown, very finely gray-haired, feebly glistening; head and 

 abdomen pitch-brown or pitch-black; abdominal tip reddish-brown; antennae, 

 mouth-parts and legs brownish red. 



Head a little broader than pronotum and larger than same, oblong 

 square, on sides and posteriorly with dense, and rather robust, at middle 

 and anteriorly with scattered punctation; antennae long and slender, all 

 joints longer than broad; pronotum somewhat narrower than elytra, and a 

 little broader than long, narrowing posteriorly, with rather robust and 

 very dense punctation, and with a narrow, smooth middle-line; elytra 

 distinctly longer than pronotum, with fine and very dense scabrous punc- 

 tation; abdomen especially densely and finely punctate; legs slender; 

 hind tarsi about as long as tibiae. L. 6-7 mm. 



In the (? the abdominal fifth ventral joint is broadly emarginate, 

 and the sixth with acute angular incision. 



Distributed in Middle Europe, very rare in this country; it is found 



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