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country, on damp woodland or marshy ground under leaves and moss and 



in alluvium at water edges; in gardens under rotting plants and in 



compost. 



2. St. slmills Er. 



(Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 521; (Jen. Spec. Staph. 632; Kraatz Ins. D. 

 II, 699; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 203; Muls. et Rey Bre'vip. 1878, 227; Janglb. 

 Kaf. If. II, 533. - orbiculatus 0-ravh. Micr. 63). 



A little smaller than ruf ipes , but with larger eyes, recognized es- 

 pecially by the fine, through running middle-groove of pronotum, color 

 of legs, and sex-characters of the c5 . 



Black; head and pronotum dull, elytra and abdomen glistening, fine- 

 ly haired; elytral posterior margins particularly at the outer corners, 

 antennae, mouth-parts and legs reddish-yellow. 



The head is as broad as elytra, head and pronotum with very dense 

 and rather coarse umbilical punctation; eyes almost as long as the temp- 

 les, fore-margin of labrum at middle with two teeth; antennae short, 

 scarcely thickened outwardly, their next-last joints feebly transverse; 

 pronotum oval with a narrow, not abbreviated, and at the entire length 

 finely grooved, smooth middle-line; elytra a little longer than prono- 

 tum, with rather robust and dense punctation; abdomen especially dense- 

 ly and very finely punctated. L. 5.5 mm. 



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In the o the abdominal fifth ventral joint posteriorly in middle 

 with a broad, semicircular, rather flat impression, the sides of which 

 posteriorly are elevated carina-like and each running out in a small tooth; 



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