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 slightly convex, most often somewhat smooth Interval, antennae rather 

 slender and fine; pronotum before middle hardly as broad as long, nar- 

 rower than elytra, with slightly rounded sides, narrowing posteriorly, 

 at middle-line feebly, sometimes indistinctly grooved, and with two 

 especially feeble impressions posteriorly; elytra fully as long as pro- 

 notum, with almost parallel sides, somewhat uneven; abdomen with very 

 dense, anteriorly rather robust, posteriorly finer punctation; tarsi 

 same as in palustris . L. 4-4.5 mm. 



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In thee? the abdominal sixth ventral joint is posteriorly smooth- 

 ed and at tip with a very small incision. 



Distributed in North and Middle Surope; in our country rather rare 

 and local; most often on high ground, on heath-hills under heather, 

 moss and lichen, in highland forests and thicket under leaves and like 

 places. (North Sjaelland from Copenhagen to Tisvilde; Jutland, especial- 

 ly from Ry to Frederikshavn) . 



49. St. flavipalpis Thorns. 



(Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 237, IX, 200; ianglb. Kaf. U. II, 597). " 



Very closely allied to and like geniculatus , from which it is mainly 

 separated by the following details: 



The body somewhat glistening, with feeble ore- or bronze-reflecti- 

 on; maxillary palpi entirely yellow; antennae yellow with brownish or 

 Jiitch-black basal joint and brownish club; legs almost entirely yellow, 

 only middle- and hind-knees narrowly and most often feebly pitchy-brown; 

 pronotum at middle aproximately as broad as long, at middle-line not 



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