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 or margin of elytra and posterior margins of abdominal joints, as well 

 as antennae, mouth-parts and legs reddish-yellow. Sometimes the elytra 

 are brownish-red. 



The head is at least as broad as, more often broader than elytra, 

 considerably broader than pronotum, head and pronotum with very dense 

 umbilical punctation; antennae thin; pronotum anteriorly hardly as broad 

 as elytra, strongly narrowing posteriorly, the sides with four or five 

 outstanding bristles; elytra short, scarcely longer than pronotum, with 

 very robust or coarse and dense scabrous punctation; abdomen rather strong- 

 ly broadned posteriorly, its first four free joints three times as broad 

 as long, with robust and dense, the following with less dense punctation. 

 L. 3.5-4 mm. 



In the CV the abdominal fifth ventral joint in middle-line slightly 

 grooved, the sixth like in the other species angularly incised at tip. 



Distributed in Europe; with us it has heretofore only been found in 

 the islands, mostly under leaves in woods and compost in gardens, occa- 

 sionally in great numbers. - It is found in Skaane and in ^land (Thorns.), 

 but not in Norway or Finland. 



4. A. angustatus Payk. 



(Payk. Mon. Staph. 36; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 524; >Jen. Spec. Staph. 

 640; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 723; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 209; Muls. et Key Bre'- 

 vip. 1878, 291; Ganglb. Kaf. M. II, 541). 



In relation to the preceding and following species especially identi- 

 fiable by broader and longer elytra; from pulchellus namely separated by 

 less slender and less robustly punctated abdomen, and from f ilif or ;' 



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