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14. St. sylvester Er. 



(Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 547; Zen. Spec. Staph. 708; Kraatz Ins. 

 D. II, 766; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 217; £ey Brevip. 1884, 88; ianglb. 

 Kaf. U. II, 567). 



Much smaller than provldus , less glistening, with darker maxillary 

 palpi and legs, and less impressed, almost flat forehead, besides by 

 this easily identified by the sex-characters of O • 



Black; thorax feebly or dully glistening, indistinctly haired, 

 abdomen more glistening and with very fine whitish hair; first joint 

 of maxillary palpi and base of the second yellow, the second brownish 

 at tip, the third pitch-brown; legs pitch-brown, femoral inner half, 

 sometimes also middle of tibiae brownish red. 



The head is broader than pronotum, but hardly as broad as elytra, 

 with rather robust, extremely dense rugous punctation, forehead between 



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 the eye6 very feebly impressed, and its two longitudinal grooves as 

 well as their intervals feeble, fiatened out; antennae rather short; 

 pronotum broadest at middle, considerably narrower than elytra, hardly 

 longer than broad, posteriorly slightly impressed-narrowing, with coarse 

 extremely dense, slightly rugou6 punctation, with an anteriorly and 

 posteriorly abbreviated, more or less distinct, fine groove in the mid- 

 dle-line; elytra rather broad, hardly longer than pronotum, somewhat 

 uneven, coarse and extremely dense, slightly rugous punctation; abdomen 

 with rather robust and dense, posteriorly a little finer punctation, 

 its first four free dorsal joints at base with a short carina in middle- 



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