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The head is as broad as, or even broader than elytra, rather ro- 

 bustly and densely punctated; forehead not impressed, but with two flat, 

 broad longitudinal grooves, and between these feebly, yet most often 

 distinctly convex; antennae short; pronotum much narrower than elytra, 

 before the middle almost as broad as long and with rounded sides, pos- 

 teriorly rather strongly narrowing, all over with robust and very dense 

 punctation, sometimes with a suggested or feeble impression posteriorly 

 at middle; elytra distinctly longer than pronotum, fully as robustly 

 but hardly as densely punctated as this, only feebly convex and almost 

 smooth; abdomen rather thickly marginated, finely but not densely punc- 

 tated, its foremost free dorsal joint with four small carinae at base; 

 hind tarsi rather slender, their second joint longer than the third. 

 L. 2.5 mm. 



In the o^ tne abdominal sixth ventral joint is at tip feebly emar- 

 ginate. 



Distributed in North and L'iddle Surope; with us it is everywhere 

 rather common, sometimes numerous in alluvium, especially on meadow 

 and marsh ground. 



Very closely allied to vafellus is cautus Kr. (Ins. D. II, 77C ; ? 

 Erichs. Ka'f. Ilk. Br. I, 553) from L'iddle Europe, which apparently fails 

 together with macrocephalus Aube (cf. F.ey Bre'vip. 1884, 145). It is a 

 little larger and more robust than vafellus , with darker, brownish-red 

 legs and anteriorly more strongly rounded pronotum. In the o the abdo- 

 minal fifth ventral joint is slightly emarginate, and before the emar- 



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