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In the d the abdominal fifth ventral joint at tip flatly emarginated, 

 the sixth angularly incised. 



Distributed in Middle and North Europe, everywhere rare or very rare. 

 In Denmark a single specimen is found at Copenhagen (Rosenkrantz) , seve- 

 ral at Randers (0. J. Jensen, 0. Jakob sen). 



36. St. humllis Er. 



(Erichs. Ka'f. Mk. Br. I, 554; Jen. Spec. Staph. 716; Kraatz Ins. D. 

 II, 773; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 218; Rey Bre'vip. 1884, 158; Janglb. Ka'f. 

 I. II, 580). 



"'ithin the subgenus easily identified by middle-carinated abdominal 

 joints, short elytra, and rather light legs. 



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""ingless. Elack, grayish, feebly glistening; thorax indistinctly, 

 abdomen very fine and short, whitish haired; first two joints of max- 

 illary palpi brownish yellow, the third darkly brownish; legs brownish- 

 red or yellowish-red. 



The head is broader than pronotum, as broad as elytra, with rather 

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

 but with two flat, broad longitudinal grooves, separated by a very slight- 

 ly convex interval; antennae short; pronotum narrower than elytra, as 

 long as broad before middle, posteriorly more strongly narrowing than 

 anteriorly, flattish convex, with robust and especially dense rugous- 

 punctation, posteriorly sometimes with two feeble, obliquely placed 

 side-impressions; elytra at the suture a little shorter than pronotum, 

 rather flat, most often smooth, posteriorly feebly broadened, robust and 



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