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 pression on pronotum, glistening, naked, variable in color, elytra punc- 

 tated and impressed mainly as in the preceding species; sex-characters 

 are identical. 



In the typical form the head, pronotum and as a rule also the <tho — 

 rax are black, elytra pale brownish-yellow, and with a black spot in 

 the outer hind corner, abdomen reddish-yellow, antennae, maxillary and 

 labial palpi brownish-yellow, mandibles reddish, legs pale yellow. 

 Occasionally head and pronotum each bear at middle a couple of reddish 

 yellow spots. In a somewhat deviating form, v. angularis iiebl., the 

 entire abdomen is black, in an other, v. Schgnherri Uannh., the femora 

 are also black. L. 8-12 mm. 



In toadstools like the preceding species, often very numerous, but 

 much rarer and more local than this; distributed in North and Middle 

 Europe; in Denmark so far only found in the Jutish peninsula along the 

 ridge in woodland (Rold forest, Lindum, vicinity of Himmelb jerget, Jel- 

 linje and Jels). The varieties are more rare than the typical form, but 

 occur together with this. In Sweden and Norway it is heretofore not 

 found, but in several places in Finland. 



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The larva of 0. maxillosus is illustrated and discribed by I. Schi^dte 

 in Nat. Tidsskrift III. R. 3. B. 208, T. XI, Fig. 1-14. 



A northern species, 0. Mannerheimi Jyllh. , with smoothly convex 

 pronotum, and about of equal size with maxillosus , is, except for brown- 

 ish tarsi and antennae, entirely black. It is found in Finland and Livo- 

 nia, and may possibly also be found here (Bornholm ?). 



