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44. St. foveicollls Kr. 



(Kraatz. Ins. D. II, 782; Key Bre'vip. 1884, 231; Sanglb. Kaf. M. 

 II, 590. - brevicollis Thorns. Ofv. Vet. Ac. Forh. 1857, 231; Skand. Col. 

 II, 234). 



From plcipes , to which foveicollls is very closely allied, and es- 

 pecially is like in color, the gray, feeble gloss, smooth, fine hair- 

 vestiture and dense punctation of the body, it is separated in that: 

 the legs, especially the femora, most often are more purely yellowish- 

 red, the head is proportionally broader, as broad as elytra, these short- 

 er and less broad, hardly longer than pronotum, abdomen more round. 

 L. 3.5 mm. 



In this country rare or very rare and local, in the northern part of 

 Jutland however more frequent than the preceding species (Br^nderslev, 



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 Sktfrping, Silkeborg, Horsens) ; on meadow ground and at lake shores in 

 alluvium. Distributed in Middle and North Europe. 



45. St. nitidiusculus Steph. 



(Steph. 111. Brit. V, 292; ianglb. Kaf. M. II, 591. - tempest ivus 

 Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 563; Jen. Spec. Staph. 724; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 

 784; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 234; Fey Brevip. 1884, 223). 



A wingless, rather broad species, easily identified, especially by 



the rather strong gloss and sparse punctation of the body, also by the 



short, uneven elytra. 



Glistening black, with a feeble lead-like reflection, very short, fine 



whitish hair-vestiture; antennae reddish-yellow, their first joint black, 



the club brownish; maxillary palpi reddish-yellow, the third joint most 



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