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 dense and rather robust, somewhat rugous punctation, the forehead is 

 impressed and with two flat grooves, separated by a flat, in middle- 

 line often finely carinated interval; antennae not long; pronotum much 

 narrower than elytra, broadest at middle, but hardly as broad as long, 

 posteriorly impressed-narrowed , somewhat uneven, with rather robust 

 and especially dense, somewhat rugous punctation, on each side of mid- 

 dle with a feeble, oblique impression; elytra longer than pronotum, 

 rather uneven, with very dense, coarse, whorl-rugous punctation; ab- 

 domen slender, tapering, with rather robust and dense, posteriorly 



finer punctation, (Page 498) its dorsal joints at 



base not carinated; legs slender, hind tarsi about as long as tibiae. 

 L. 5 mm. 



In the <5the abdominal fourth ventral joint posteriorly with feeble, 

 the fifth with stronger impression, sides of the impressions long hair- 

 ed, posterior margin of. the fifth broadly incurved , the sixth joint at 

 tip angularly incised. 



Distributed in Middle Europe; in this country very rare and local; 

 on damp slopes and in clay-pits, sometimes numerously. (M;oens Klint, 

 Stevns Klint; Middelfart; irejsdalen, clay-pits at Hobro). 



17. St. aterrimus Er. 



(Erichs. Keif. Mk. Br. I, 549; Sen. Spec. Staph. 712; Kraatz Ins. 

 D. II, 767; Thorns. Skand. Col. IX, 196; Rey Bre'vip. 1884, 74; Sanglb. 

 Kaf. M. II, 571). 



About of same size and slenderness as preceding species, and like- 

 wise with not carinated abdominal joints, furthermore distinctive by 



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