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Black; head and pronotum dull; elytra and abdomen glistening and 

 finely haired; elytral posterior margin reddish-yellow; antennae and 

 mouth-parts brownish-red; legs reddish yellow, femoral tip and ■and' ti- 

 biae brownish or darkly shaded; fore- and middle-coxae brown . 



The head as broad as elytra, head and pronotum with especially dense, 

 and rather coarse umbilical punctation; eyes as long as the temples; 

 anterior margin of labrum with two teeth; antennae outwardly feebly 

 thickened; pronotum much narrower than elytra, rather oval, with a smooth, 

 rather narrow, posteriorly sometimes very finely grooved middle-stripe; 

 elytra somewhat longer than pronotum, rather finely and sparsely punc- 

 tated; abdomen with very fine and very dense punctation, its sides dis- 

 tinctly rounded. L. 5 mm. 



In the O the abdominal sixth ventral joint at tip not deeply in-*- 

 ou»-ved, tne fifth with broad and shallow emargination. 



Very common everywhere in Europe, with us it is often numerous in 



compost. 



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5. St. Erichsonl Fauv. 



(Fauv. Not. Ent. V, 1867, 114; Sanglb. Kaf. M. II, 534. - orblculatus 

 Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 523; vien. Spec. Staph. 634; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 

 700; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 204; Uuls. et Rey Bre'vip. 1878, 238). 



Our smallest species; in connection with this, mainly identified by 

 very broad head, proportionately narrow elytra, and color of the legs. 



Black; head and pronotum dull, elytra and abdomen glistening, finely 

 haired; posterior margin of elytra, antennae, mouth-parts and legs, also 



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