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 Elytra longer than their breadth together, black .. 19. 



19. Elytra nearly twice as long as pronotum. L. 4-4.5 mm 



19. Bl. subterraneus Br. 



Elytra l'/j times as long as pronotum 20. 



20. Pronotum l£ times as broad as long. Legs brownish red, often black- 



ish-brown. L. 3-4 mm 20. El. rastellus Schl/. 



Pronotum l\ times as broad as long. Legs light yellowish-red 21, 



21. Vertex with a foveiform puncture at middle. Antennae pitch-black 



with reddish-yellow base. L. 3-4 mm.... 21. Bl. pallipes 3ravh. 

 Vertex without foveiform puncture. Antennae most often entirely 



yellowish-red. L. 3-4 mm 22. Bl. terebrans Schio. 



1. Subgenus Bledius s. str. Muls. et Hey. 



1. Bl. furcatus Oliv. 



(Oliv. Encycl. VIII, 616; Janglb. K'a'f. M. II, 615. - taurus Jerm. 

 Faun. Ins. Eur. XII, 2; Erichs. Jen. Spec. Staph. 760; Kraatz Ins. D. 

 II, 818; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1879, 114). 



One of the largest, and especially in regard to the sex-characters 

 of the o^ most characteristic species of the genus. 



Black, little shining, finely haired; elytra either entirely brown- 

 ish-black (typical form) or - and with us most often - yellowish-red, 

 sometimes red with a brownish-black, more or less extensive mutual-spot 

 around scutellum and at the suture (v. Skrimshiri Curt.); abdominal tip, 

 mouth and antennae, also legs brownish-red; occasionally the antennae 

 toward tip, and the femora are black or brownish-black. 



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