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Everywhere in Middle Europe, also in Denmark, where it apparently 



reaches its northern boundery, very rare; at Nyraad, South Sjaellana, 



it is found in a gravel-pit (Scblick) and at Bremersvold, Loll., a few 



specimens are sifted on the dykes (Jakobsen and Engelhart). 



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84. ienus Stilicus Latr. 



(Latr. Enc. Meth. X, 1825; Erichs. Ketf. Mk. Br. I, 519; ien. Spec. 

 Staph. 629; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 696; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 2C2; I«uls. 

 et Key Bre'vip. 1878, 215; Janglb. Kaf. If. II, 530). 



The body is slightly convex; the head remarkably large (Fig. 139), 

 considerably broader than pronotum, broad, rounded off, with a very 

 narrow and thin neck, and with round, rather small or larger eyes; an- 

 tennae moniliform, their third joint a little longer than the second; 

 labrum very broad with dilated side margins, and in the anterior mar- 

 gin at middle with two distinct, pointed teeth or serrations*) and some- 

 times with a smaller tooth at the side of these; mandibles sickle-shap- 

 ed, on inner margin most often with three teeth; last joint of maxilla- 

 ry palpi very small and fine, hardly visible. 



Pronotum is much narrower than elytra, oblong, anteriorly in toward 

 the neck tapering, posteriorly feebly narrowing, its sides anteriorly 

 finely marginated; elytra rather convex; abdomen broadest behind middle, 

 and posteriorly tapering with slightly rounded sides, its first three 

 or four free dorsal joints depressed at base; legs slender; front-fem- 

 ora and fore-tarsi normal, the hindmost tibiae at tip almost rectangu- 

 larly truncated; hind-tarsal first joint longer than the second, some- 



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 *)teeth shaped like those of a sawj translator. 



