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Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 573; ien. Spec. Staph. 744; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 

 797; Thorns. Skand. Col. IX, 198; Rey Brevip. 1884, 254). 



A small, very characteristic species with conical tapering , round 

 abdomen, bilobed fourth tarsal joint, peculiarly small head, and strong- 

 ly ventose-convex, very broad elytra. 



Black, glistening, extremely finely and sparcely haired; maxillary 

 palpi and antennae red- or pitch-brownish, the former's third joint, and 

 the letter's club almost black; legs Dlack, tibial base yellow. 



The head (Fig. 151) is peculiarly small, hardly broader than prono- 

 tum, only half a6 broad as elytra, with rather robust and dense punc- 

 tation, with two rather broad and flat forehead-grooves, separated by a 

 flattish convex interval, antennae short; pronotum only half as broad as 



elytra, (Page 529) as broad 



as long, with rounded sides, with coarse and especially on sides dense- 

 ly punctated, without impressions; the elytra remarkably broad, strong- 

 ly ventose, with rounded sides, l£ times as long as pronotum, coarsely 

 and densely punctated, smooth; abdomen at base often only half as broad 

 as elytra, strongly conically tapering, round, anteriorly robustly and 

 rather densely, posteriorly more finely punctated; tarsi rather short, 

 their fourth joint deeply cleft, bilobed. L. 2.5 mm. 



In the o the abdominal fourth ventral joint plate-shaped prolonged, 

 posterior margin of the plate broadly arcuately produced, with promi- 

 nent corners and densely whitish haired posterior margin; the sixth 

 ventral joint at tip rather broadly and deeply angularly incised. 



Distributed in the greater part of Europe, everywhere rare; in this 



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