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Pitch-black or pitch-brown, feebly glistening; elytra and abdomen 

 very finely haired; the hend and often also pronotum brownish-red; an- 

 tennae, mouth-parts and legs yellowish-red. 



The head above the eyes as broad as pronotum (Fig. 143) the head 

 and pronotum rather finely, and especially densely punctated; antennae 

 short; the marginal teeth of labrum short, numerous, close set and of 

 uniform lenght; pronotum heart-shaped, hardly as broad as elytra, post- 

 eriorly in front of base with two short, deep, narrowly divided grooves, 

 and in middle-line before scutellum with a fine, short, carinated line, 

 the punctures along posterior margin large and deep; elytra as long as 

 pronotum, with very fine and dense, but not scabrous punctation, and 

 with a distinct sutural stripe; abdomen especially finely and densely 

 punctate. L. 1.5 mm. 



In the O the abdominal sixth ventral joint with a deep, angular 

 incision, the fifth in middle of posterior margin with a small rounded 

 protrusion, and is as well as the fourth joint grooved in the middle- 

 line. 



On damp meadow or marshy ground, distributed in Middle and North 



Europe, and in this country often numerous in alluvium. It is found in 



Skaane , but not in the northern part of Sweden, and is seemingly not 



found in Norway or Finland as reaching as far north as the two other 



species (-irill). 



3. E. laeviusculus Mannh. 



(Mannh. Bull. Mosc. 1844, I, 195; rraatz Ins. D. II, 736; Thorns. 

 Skand. Col. IX, 286; Muls. et Rey Bre'vip. 1878, 314; lianglb. Kaf. U. 

 II, 546. - ruficapillus Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 116). 



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