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Black, glistening, thorax very sparsely, abdomen more densely and 

 distinctly, whitish haired; maxillary palpi yellow, their third joint 

 often a little brownish; antennal base and middle joints reddish-yellow, 

 the distal joints and club as a rule brownish-black; leg6 reddish-yellow, 

 but the outer half of femora and tibiae until toward the tip, also out- 

 er part of tarsal joints black or brownish-black. 



The thorax all over with dense, and especially pronotum and elytra 

 remarkably coarse punctation; head (Fig. 150) broader than pronotum, 

 but noticeably narrower than elytra, with two flatened forehead-grooves, 

 separated by a feebly convex interval, antennae rather long; pronotum 

 narrower than elytra, hardly longer than broad, with rounded sides, 

 smoothly convex and without impressions; elytra somewhat longer than 

 pronotum, slightly convex, but oftenest impressed closest to the scu- 

 tellum, otherwheres smooth; abdomen round, feebly tapering, in the 

 transversal grooves anteriorly with rather coarse and dense, the joints 

 elsewhere with fine and rather scattered punctation; fourth tarsal Joint 

 deeply cleft and bilobed, the third at tip scarcely emarginated. L. 5.5- 

 6 mm. 



In the othe abdominal sixth ventral joint at tip deeply angularly 

 incised. (Fig* 150. Stenus cicindeloides Schall.). 



Distributed in Europe; in this country not rare at lake shores, 

 water-courses and on damp marsh- and meadow-ground. 



64. St. fornlcatus Steph. 

 (Steph. 111. Brit. V, 287; 3anglb. Kaf. M. II, 586. - contractus 



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