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 The head across the eyes narrower than pronotum and with flatly 

 impressed, anteriorly and on sides upturned margined clypeus, not punc- 

 tated, in the jP dull , and the surface very densely shagreened, and with 

 sharply set off, ax-shaped, erect forehead-corners, and a small fovea 

 at middle of vertex, in the ^contrariwise glistening, smooth, and 

 with a large, erect, cultrate horn on each of the forehead-corners an- 

 teriorly, antennae rather slender; pronotum anteriorly as broad as el- 

 ytra, and somewhat broader than long, with acutely prominent fore-cor- 

 ners, posteriorly obliquely narrowing and with obtuse angular hind-cor- 

 ners, all over with rather sparse and robust punctation, the surface 

 densely and very finely shagreened, the middle-line grooved, in the O 

 anteriorly armed with a centrally placed, forwardly directed, long, not 



grooved, but at tip penicillate horn, in the Q not armed. Elytra are 



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longer than pronotum, with rather dense and fine, posteriorly finer 



punctation; abdomen finely and sparsely punctated; hind tibiae at tip 



with 4-6 rather long spines. L. 6-7 mm. 



In the O the ventral abdominal seventh joint posteriorly at each 

 side slightly inCurvate and at middle produced. 



Distributed at saliferous inland lakes in twiddle Europe and on sandy 

 ocean beaches; in Denmark found only in later years at Esbjerg. 

 (7. 1897, 5. 1898. Jensen-Haarup and others). 



2. Bl. tricornis Herbst. 

 (Herbst. Fuessly Arch. 1.784, 149; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 578; Kraatz 



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