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 often a little brownish; legs reddish-yellow, nearest the knees pitch- 

 brown. 



The head is broader than pronotum, as broad as the base of elytra , 

 rather fine and dense punctation, on forehead between the eyes with 

 two broad grooves, separated by a convex, glistening interval, anten- 

 nae rather short; pronotum broadest before the middle, narrower than 

 elytra, as broad as long, narrowing posteriorly, slightly convex, rather 

 finely and not densely punctated, the surface very finely reticulated, 

 on each side behind middle with an obliqyaly placed, rather deep im- 

 pression; elytra a little longer than pronotum, broadened posteriorly, 

 very uneven, with rather fine and sparse punctation, between the punc- 

 tures extremely finely reticulated; abdomen finely and particularly at 

 the middle sparsely punctated, tapering, dorsal joints without carinae 

 at base; tarsi short and broad, their third joint heart-6haped, the 

 fourth deeply cleft, bilobed. L. 4-4.5 mm. 



In the O the abdominal sixth ventral joint at tip deeply, angularly 

 incised. 



Distributed in Middle and North Europe; in our country local and 



rather rare; at ditches and on wet ground on water plants (SkjSrping, 



Randers, Py, Vejle, Vosborg; Odense; Sor^", Copenhagen; Lolland several 



places) . 



46. St. flavipes Steph. (nee Er. , Kr.). 



(Steph. 111. Er. V, 289; danglb. Kaf. IS. II, 591. - filum Erichs. 

 Kaf. L'.k. Br. I, 568; Jen. Spec. Staph. 731; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 792; 

 Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 235; Rey Brevip. 1884, 236). 



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