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 ed, with rather fine, flat and isolated punctation; elytre '/? longer 

 than pronotum, densely and rather deeply punctated; abdomen sparsely 

 punctated; hind tibiae toward tip with 4-5 fine spines. L. 4-5 mm. 



In the Othe ventral abdominal seventh joint broadly incurvate and. 

 with prominent corners; in the Q the posterior margin of same joint at 

 middle roundedly produced. 



Distributed principally in the northern Middle Europe on moist sandy 

 ground; in this country everywhere rather common, at the brims of riv- 

 ers and lakes, and at the beach, sometimes very numerous. 



7. Bl. atricapillus ierm. 



(ierm. Faun. Ins. Eur. XI, 4; Erichs. -ien. Spec. Staph. 773; Kraatz 

 Ins. C. II, 832; Schijrfdte Nat. Tidsskr. 1866, 147; Muls. et Rey Bre'vip. 

 1879, 160; ianglb. Kaf. M. II, 619). 



A small species, easily identified by the color and scattered punc- 

 tation of the middle-grooved pronotum, and by proportionally long el- 

 ytra. 



Pitch-black or pitch-brown, very finely haired, anteriorly feebly, 

 posteriorly rather strongly glistening; pronotum usually reddish-brov.r. ; 

 elytra pale brownish-yellow with a dark spot at middle of the suture; 

 antennae brownish-red, their base, mouth and legs reddish-yellow. 



The head in the p is narrower than pronotum, hardly punctated, as 

 well as pronotum with surface very finely shagreened and therefore dull, 

 antennae short; pronotum narrower than elytra, broader than long, with 

 straight, parallel sides, posteriorly short, obliquely narrowing and 

 with rounded-=off obtuse hind corners, convex, middle-grooved, feebly 



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