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 legs clearly reddish-yellow. Occasionally the humeri can also be red- 

 dish-yellow (var. humeralis) . 



The head is fully as long as broad, broader than pronotum, head as 

 well as pronotum with very dense umbilical punctation; antennae fine 

 and slender; pronotum longer than broad, anteriorly almost as broad as 

 elytra, narrowing posteriorly, on each side with two outstanding brist- 

 les; elytra longer than pronotum, with very dense and rather robust 

 scabrous punctation, abdomen elongate, toward tip feebly or scarcely 

 broadened, its first four free dorsal joints at most twice as broad as 

 long, with very dense and rather fine punctation, the following less 

 densely punctated. L. 4.5-5 mm. 



Distributed in Europe; not very frequent in this country, mostly 



on high ground under moss and at the root of plants growing in the sand; 



here and there in Sweden, in the southern part of Norway and in Finland 



(Grill). 



2. A. pulchellus Heer. 



(Heer Faun. Helv. I, 230; Oanglb. Kaf. M. II, 541. - diversus Aube 

 Ann. 3oc. Ent. Fr. 1850, 318; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1878, 285; cf. Kraatz 

 Ins. D. II, 722 and 723 Note). 



Elongated like f ilif ormis , but smaller and narrower, with somewhat 

 glistening elytra and abdomen. 



Black or brownish-black, depressed, fine and short grayish-yellow 

 haired; head and pronotum dull; elytra and abdomen broadly, and in to- 

 ward the suture broader reddish-yellow; posterior margins of the abdom- 

 inal joints, antennae, mouth-parts and legs yellow or reddish-yellow, 

 tip of femora and tibiae sometimes shaded. In lighter specimens the 



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