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Odense; Copenhagen, liillerjsd and several other places in North Sjaelland). 



25. St. atratulus Sr. 



(£richs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 540; Jen. Spec. Staph. 701; Kraatz Ins. D. 

 II, 759; Thorns. Skand. 3ol. II, 221; Rey Brevip. 1884, 117; Janglb. Kaf. 

 U. II, 575. - longipennis Rey Brevip. 1884, 116). 



!.!uch like melanarius , but smaller, with proportionately coarser, on 

 abdomen much more robust punctation; the interval between grooves of 

 forehead more convex, pronotum posteriorly more strongly narrowing, and 

 elytra most often distinctly longer. 



Black, lead-like glistening, with fine, whitish hair; first joint 

 of maxillary palpi brownish. 



The head is a little Droader than pronotum, about as broad as elytra, 

 robust and very dense punctation; forehead between eyes not impressed, 

 but slightly convex and with two flat grooves, separated by a distinctly 



convex interval; (Fage 504)---- antennae short; 



pronotum narrower than elytra, as long as broad before the middle, rather 

 strongly narrowing posteriorly, with robust and very dense punctation, 

 most often somewhat depressed posteriorly on dorsum, and sometimes with 

 a suggested groove in middle-line; elytra distinctly, often fully + lon- 

 ger than pronotum, with robust and very dense punctation, somewhat un- 

 even; abdomen rather robustly and rather densely punctated, its foremost 

 free dorsal joint with four small carinae at base; tarsi short, their 

 second joint scarcely longer than the third. L. 2.5-3 mm. 



In the o the posterior margins of the abdominal fifth and sixth ven- 

 tral joints are feebly incurved. 



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