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(Muls. et Pey Ann. Soc. Linn. 1854, 180; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 707; 

 Muls et Rey Brevip. 1878, 204; Sanglb. Kaf. U. II, 529). 



Identified by form of the head, finely grooved pronotum, and in 

 relation to the following species by dilated middle-tibiae, and by the 

 sex-characters of the o . 



Pitch-black, or pitch-brown with pitch-black abdomen and often red- 

 dish-brown pronotum, finely haired and feebly glistening; antennae, 

 mouth-parts and legs reddish-yellow, occasionally brownish yellow or 

 darker. 



The head (Fig. 137) is distinctly broader than pronotum, somewhat 

 square, anteriorly feebly narrowing, with straight sides and prominent, 

 slightly rounded-off temple-corners, also with very feebly emarginated, 

 almost straight posterior margin, head and pronotum with especially fine 

 and dense punctation; antennae short, shorter than head and pronotum to- 

 gether; pronotum oblong, obovate, hardly as broad as elytra, posterior- 

 ly before scutellum with two feeble, often indistinct longitudinal cav- 

 ities, at midile-line finely grooved; elytra somewhat longer than pro- 

 notum, with very dense, rather robust, and somewhat scabrous punctation; 

 abdomen very finely and densely punctated; middle-tibiae rather strong- 

 ly dilated (Fig. 135 a). L. 3 mm. 



In the u the abdominal sixth ventral joint at tip deeply incised, 



and has at the base two deep, elongate, smooth impressions (Fig. 138), 



separated by a roof -shaped interval. 



Fig. 137. Scopaeus cognatus Muls. 



Fig. 138. Abdominal last three ventral joints in Scopaeus 

 cognatus Mu Is. C? • 



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