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 trlcornls . In Denmark it is heretofore only found in few numbers on 

 the strand at Esbjerg (6. 1898 L;0vendal) and in Amager (Rye). 



2. Subgenus Elbldus Muls. et Fey. 



4. Bl. blcornls ^errn. 



(3erm. Faun. Ins. Eur. VI, 15; Erichs. Jen. Spec. Staph. 762; Kraatz 

 Ins. D. II, 819; Schitfdte Nat. Tidssk. 1866, 146; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 

 1879, 131; Janglb. Kaf. U. II, 617). 



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Identified by the sex-characters in the O , and the upturned margins 

 of clypeus. Very closely related to f urcatus , but smaller, in the O 

 without horns on pronotum and with smaller horns on the head. 



Black or brownish black, finely haired, little shine; elytra most 

 often brownish-yellow with dark suture, sometimes entirely brownish-yel- 

 low, rarely darkly brown; abdominal tip, mouth, antennae and legs brown- 

 ish-yellow or yellowish-red. 



Head across the eyes is narrower than pronotum, not punctated, very 

 densely shagreened and dull, with flatly impressed forehead, of which 

 the fore-corners in the Q are erect, flatly compressed and low, but in 

 the cfmore robustly developed, formed like short, erect, compressed, at 

 tip obliquely truncated horns, margins of clypeus upturned and finely 

 mar^inated, antennae rather short, with three thickened distal joints. 



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 Pronotum is anteriorly as broad as elytra, with prominent fore-corners 

 and almost straight sides, posteriorly obliquely truncated-narrowed, 

 without distinct hind corners, its dorsal surface densely shagreened, 

 almost dull, rather robust and scattered punctation, middle-line grooved; 



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