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 In the o the hind tibiae on inner side at tip with a very small 

 spine; the fifth abdominal ventral Joint is posteriorly slightly im- 

 pressed and more densely haired, posterior margin very feebly produced, 

 the sixth at tip obtuse angularly incised. 



Distributed in Middle Europe, and also found in Norway and on the 

 strand at Falsterbro in Skaane (15. 5. 1910, P. Eichelbaum) ; in this 

 country found at Sj^nderborg ("/ustnei). 



Of a somewhat deviating form, seemingly of this species, a small 

 series of specimens in Ljetvendal ' s collection, incorrectly placed as 

 St. subglaber Ihoms., is found in Zool. Hub., Copenhagen. The antennae 

 in most of the specimens are brownish toward the tip or at the middle, 

 legs darkly brown with brownish-red femora. On the abdominal foremost 

 free dorsal joint the small carinae at base seems entirely obliterated. 

 Otherwise the above description of morio iravh. corresponds in every 

 detail. 



Some of these specimens are found on the strand at Cjedser (Schitfdte, 

 Benson) , others at Frederikshavn (Schijefdte) . - (cf. Dr. F. Meinert's 

 record of our Stenus species in Entom. Medd. II, B. 1889-90. S. 231). 



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 24. St. melanarius Steph. 



(Steph. 111. Brit. V, 299; Oanglb. Kaf. II. II, 575. - cinerascens 

 Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 539; ien. Spec. Staph. 701; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 

 75£ ; Rey Brevip. 1884, 113. - nlgripalpis Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 221). 



Closely allied to morio , but with smaller head, slightly convex fore- 

 head, shorter antennae and hind tarsi, and less distinctive sex-charac- 



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