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 palpi yellow, their third joint toward tip brownish; antennae reddish 

 yellow, their first two joints and the club brownish-black; legs brow- 

 ish red, most often with darker knees and lighter tarsi. 



The head is as broaa. as elytra, considerably broader than prono- 

 tum, head, pronotum and elytra with robust and very dense punctation, 

 forehead broad with two flat longitudinal grooves, separated by a feeb- 

 ly convex interval; (Page 526) pronotum before middle 



hardly as broad as long, considerably narrower than elytra, with slight- 

 ly rounded sides, narrowing posteriorly, entirely smooth and without 

 groove; elytra 1$ times as long as pronotum; abdomen round, feebly ta- 

 pering, rather robustly and very densely punctated, more robustly than 

 in latif rons ; tarsi and the sex-characters in the & same as in this f 

 L. 4-4.5 mm. 



Distributed in Europe; not rare in this country, and in like places 

 as the preceding species, often together with same. 



60. St. tarsalis Ljungh. 



(Ljungh Web. Mohr. Beitr. II, 157; Erichs. Kaf. Uk. Br. I, 565; 

 Jen. Spec. Staph. 732; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 794; Thorns. Skand. Col. II, 

 232; Key Brevip. 1884, 248; ianglb. Kaf. M. 584). 



Larger and more robust than fulvicornis and with darker legs, and 

 only the first antennal joint black. 



Black, lead-like glistening, very short, whitish-gray hair vesti- 

 ture; maxillary palpi yellow, antennae likewise yellow, but their first 

 joint is black, and the club brownish; legs black with brownish-yellow 

 tarsi. 



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