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 thorax with rather robust, but not dense punctation, the sur- 

 face extremely finely shagreenec; the head about as croad as elytra, 

 broader than pronotum, with two rather broad, often feebly foveate 

 grooves on forehead, separated by a convex, occasionally finely car.- 

 nated interval, antennae re. tner snort; pronotum before middle hardly 

 as broaa as long, narrowing posteriorly, slightly convex, behind 

 with a flat, obliquely placed impression on eacr. side; elytra or.L 

 little longer tr.an pronotum, uneven; abdomen with rather fine and dense, 

 posteriorly finer punctation, rather thick =-: convex, ratner finely 

 marginatei, its foremost three free dorsal Joints at base with a short 

 carina in Middle-line; tarsi short, croad, their third joint heart- 

 shaped, the four*. . ieeply cleft ana bilobed. L. 2.c--* zz.. 



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 Id the o*he i:".ominal fourth ani fifth ventral joints are impres- 

 sed, the fourth posteriorly, but the fifth at base, and this behind 

 impression densely haired, the sixtr. is at tip deeply angularly incised. 



Distributed in North and kiddle Europe; in Denaark mainly on it 

 meadow- or marsh-ground, in alluvium and at water places, not cob 



j of Copenhagen, Sor/; Lollanz , 3dense; sarhus, al- 



borg and several otr.er places,. 



43. ;•.. ri cites Steph. 



ph. 111. Brit. V. 288; Sang] :. .... IT, 589. - r-sticus 

 -'. z.ziz. Staph. 724; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 783; -. Sol, 



II, 223, ' rip. 1354. 228). 



J si closely allied species -articular!. 

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