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56. St. brunnlpes Steph. 



(Steph. 111. Brit. V, 285; ianglb. Kaf. U. II, 583. - unlcolor 

 Erlohs. .Jen. Spec. Staph. 720; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 777; Thorns. Skand. 

 Col. II, 230; Rey Bre'vip. 1884, 172). 



This species identified, besides by the round abdomen, of which the 

 foremost free dorsal joint is without carinae at base, especially by: 

 short, robustly and very densely punctated elytra, and brownish-red legs. 



Black, somewhat glistening, with sparse and very short, whitish hair; 

 first joint of maxillary palpi as well as base of the following yellow; 

 legs brownish-red or reddish-brown. 



Rather elongate and of equal breadth; head as broad as elytra, broad- 

 er than pronotum, with robust and very dense punctation, and with two 

 broad, rather deep forehead-grooves, separated by a distinctly convex 

 interval, antennae rather short; pronotum at middle as broad as lonj, 

 narrower than elytra, with rounded sides, posteriorly a little more nar- 



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 rowing than anteriorly, flatly convex, smooth, robust and especially 

 dense punctation; elytra at the suture not longer than pronotum, with 

 very robust and very dense punctation, smooth; abdomen round, posteriorly 

 slightly tapering, anteriorly with robust and dense, posteriorly some- 

 what finer punctation, its dorsal joint without carinae at base; tarsi 

 short, tneir fourth joint feebly bilobed, separated about to the middle. 

 L. 3.5-4 mm. 



In the o the abdominal sixth ventral joint at tip slightly emarginate. 



Distributed in iSurope; in Denmark rather local and rare, in the north- 



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