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in tne northern Skaane (Tnoms.). Its occurrence in Lenct. ere- 



fore not unlikely. 



15. St. proditor Er. 



(Lrichs. r'.af. Be. Br. 1, SEC; ien. Spec. Staph. 713; Kraatz Ins. I. 

 II, ~ s. Stand. Col. IX, 19?.; ?ey rrevip. i'_ j-anglb. Kaf. 

 1£. II, 568). 



A rather small species of uniform breadth with dark legs and anten- 

 nae, troad head, and narrow, rather short elytra. 



Black, a little glistening; the thorax indistinctly, abdomen very 

 finely hairei; -axillary palpi pitch-brown with yellow base; legs pitch- 

 black, femoral base ordinarily brownish or yellowish red. 



-ead is very broad, almost broader than elytra, with rather ro- 

 bust and dense punctation, — (Fage4S7) very large eyes, slightly \m- 



pressed forehead, and deep forehead-grooves, separated by a roof-sr.i 

 almost carinated interval; antennae fine. ?r:r.r.,; is narrower than 

 elytra, a little longer than broad, narrowing posteriorly and with feeb- 

 ly impressed sides, otherwise smooth, all over with very dense and ro- 

 bust punctation, often with a fee:. irelj =.?:= s~.iz jroove in mid- 

 dle-line; elytra scarcely longer tbas pronotom, and not broa 

 long, rather smoothly, very robustly, but hardly as densely puncta". - 

 as pronotum; abdomen - ly in the O , of ratner equal creadth, 



~r fine and dense punctation, its first four free 3 oints 

 i short carina in the aiddle-line; legs slender, hind- 

 tarai hardly as long as the tibiae. L. 2-2.5 mm. 



It. the O the abdominal fifth ver.-. I a.1 aid "tly ia- 



-2"- 



