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2. Subgenus Paederus s. str. Muls. et Rey. 



2. P. fuscipes Curt. 



(Curt. Ent. Brit. Ill, 108; Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 537. - longjpennls 

 Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 517; (Jen. Spec. Staph. 651; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 

 728; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 196; Muls. et Rey Bre'vip. 1878, 261). 



In color much like the two following species, but a little smaller 

 than these, with narrower head and pronotum also with considerably long- 

 er elytra. 



Reddish-yellow, glistening; elytra and abdomen sparsely haired; 

 the head, except the mouth, also the abdominal tip from, and including 

 the fifth free joint black; elytra blue or greenish; mesosternum, an- 

 tennal outer part, tip of maxillary palpi, and tip of femora, often al- 

 so the middle- and hind-tibiae and the outer tarsal joints, also the 

 scutellum brownish or brownish black. 



The head is rounded, as broaa as pronotum, at sides finely and spar- 

 sely punctated, at middle smooth; antennae slender; pronotum oblong, 

 much narrower than elytra, scarcely narrowing posteriorly, on sides 

 with isolated punctation, otherwheres smooth and polished; elytra l£ 

 times as long as pronotum, with coarse and dense punctation; abdomen 

 with very fine and very scattered punctation. L. 7 mm. 



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Distributed in Europe; in this country it is most often found in our 

 southern and eastern regions, but it is very local. Along the beach of 

 Bornholm it is in several places numerous; here and there in Sweden and 

 Finland, but is not found in Norway (^rill). 



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