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 finely haired; antennae, mouth-parts and legs, sometimes also the head 

 rusty-red. 



The head is as broad as pronotum and together with same coarsely 

 and very densely punctated; antennae short; the teeth of labrum scat- 

 tered to some extent, and the middle ones in particular are consider- 

 ably longer than in the following species; (Page 477) 



pronotum rounded-heart-shaped, anteriorly as broad as elytra, posteri- 

 orly on the dorsum with two feeble, short, straight longitudinal grooves; 

 elytra most often a little shorter than pronotum, with coarse and very 

 dense rugose scabrous punctation, and without distinct sutural stripe; 

 abdomen rather thick, as broad as elytra, with especially dense and 

 fine punctation. L. 1.5-2 mm. 



In the 6 the abdominal 6ixth ventral joint with a deeply rounded, 

 the fifth at tip with a feeble incision, the fourth at middle of post- 

 erior margin with two teeth, separated by a small incision. 



Distributed in North and Middle Europe on damp meadow ground, some- 

 times numerous in alluvium, but not everywhere in this country as com- 

 mon as the following species. 



2. E. ruficapillus Boisd. 



(Boisd. Lac. Faun. Ent. Paris I, 439; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 575; 

 Sen. Spec. Staph. 747; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 737; Thorns. Skand. Col. IX, 

 287; Muls. et Rey Bre'vip. 1878, 311; Janglb. Kaf. U. II, 545. - pullus 

 Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 116). 



A little smaller and narrower than the preceding and following spe- 

 cies, recognized, inter alia, by the very dense, but not scabrous punc- 

 tation of elytra. 



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