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 fore- and middle-coxae yellow or reddish-yellow. 



The head is conspicuously large, distinctly broader than elytra, 

 head and pronotum with particularly dense and rather coarse umbilical 

 punctation; eyes large, longer than temples; fore-margin of labrum two- 

 toothed; antennae very feebly thickened outwardly; pronotum rather oval, 

 narrower than elytra, and with a rather narow, smooth, posteriorly more 

 or less distinctly grooved stripe at middle; elytra as long as pronotum, 

 proportionately narrower than in the preceding 6pecie6, with rather fine 

 and not dense punctation; abdomen very finely and densely punctated, its 

 sides distinctly rounded. L. 4-4.5 mm. 



In the 6 the abdominal sixth ventral Joint at tip not deeply in- 

 curved, the fifth with shallow and broad emargination. 



Distributed in North and Middle Europe on damp ground, but in this 

 country far from being as common as the preceding species. 



( Paederina Muls. et Rey, Seidlitz). 



85. Jenus Paederus Fabr. 



(Fabr. Syst. Ent. 1775, 268; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 517; GJen. Spec. 

 Staph. 649; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 724; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 195 ( Paederus ); 

 Muls. et Rey Bre'vip. 1878, 242; Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 534). 



The body (Fig. 141) is elongate and rather narrow, somewhat convex; 



the head rounded, with narrow, very short neck and round, rather small, 



somewhat protruding eyes, and with slender, filiform antennae, of which 



the third joint is considerably longer than the second; fore-margin of 



labrum without teeth or denticles, but with a small incision at middle; 



last joint of maxillary palpi very small and short, wart-shaped; mandibles 



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