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 at base most often brownish-red femora; sometimes the tibiae are also 

 brownish. 



Head broader than pronotum, almost as broad as elytra, with robust 

 and dense punctation; forehead between the eyes not impressed, but with 

 two feeble, often nearly obliterated grooves, separated by a rather broad, 

 slightly convex interval; antennae rather short; pronotum narrower than 

 elytra, at middle hardly as broad as long, posteriorly narrowed and the 

 sides anteriorly slightly rounded, convex, robustly and very densely punc- 

 tated, without impressions and without groove in middle-line; elytra 

 distinctly longer than pronotum, punctated like same, smooth, distinct- 

 ly convex; abdomen more or less tapering, rather convex, most often fi- 

 nely marginated, rather fine and dense, posteriorly somewhat finer punc- 

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

 tarsi rather slender, their fourth joint somewhat broadened, feebly bi- 

 lobed, divided to middle; hind tarsal second joint a little longer than 

 the third. L. 3-3.5 mm. 



In the ^abdomen is more narrowing and finer marginated than in the 

 q • almost round; abdominal fifth ventral joint hardly emarginate, the 

 sixth at tip very feebly incurved. 



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Distributed in North and Middle Europe; in Denmark it is as a whole 

 rather rare, but here and there on damp forest or meadow ground and in 

 alluvium sometimes numerous. 



33. St. fuscipes CJravh. 



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