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 first joint black, and the club sometimes feebly brownish; legs yellow 

 with black knees. (Page 527) 



The head is as broad as elytra, very densely and rather finely punc- 

 tated, with two broad, rather short, flat forehead-grooves, separated 

 by a low convex interval, antannae rather long, fine; pronotum about as 

 broad at middle as long, considerably narrower than elytra, narrowing 

 posteriorly, very dense and rather robust punctation, and with a feeble 

 or merely suggested, oblique side-impression posteriorly; elytra '/$ lon- 

 ger than pronotum, with fully as robust, but not quite as dense punc- 

 tation as this, anteriorly a little uneven; abdomen round, slightly 

 tapering, all over with robust and very dense punctation; tarsi rather 

 slender, their fourth joint deeply bilobed. L. 5.5-6 mm. 



In the ff the posterior margin of the abdominal fourth ventral joint 

 at middle broadly emarginated, the sixth at tip angularly incised. 



Distributed in Europe, everywhere in this country rather common on 

 damp ground; O is seemingly much rarer than G . 



62. St. solutus Er. 



(Erichs. len. Spec. Staph. 734; Rey BreVip. 1884, 243; .ianglb. Kaf. M. 

 II, 585). 



Of same size as similis , very closely allied to thi6, and as a whole 



of similar appearance, but somewhat more strongly, lead-like glistening. 



Antennae are yellow, their first joint yellow or brownish-yellow, never 



black, as in similis. but the club often brownish; legs for the most 



yellow, but the front-femora have a black spot above the knee, the middle- 



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