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Distributed in North and Middle Europe. Common eveywhere in this 

 country on semidamp sandy or clayey slopes, in ditches, at river- and 

 lake-brims, on semidamp earth-mould and heather-ground. The form with 

 red elytra is less frequent than the one with entirely black "and is 

 seemingly most at home in earth-mould* (I. Schiadte). 



The larva is described and illustrated by Schiiidte Nat. Tidsskr. 

 III. R. 3. B., 213, T. XII, Fig. 20. 



10. Bl. femoralis CJyllh. 



(iyllh. Ins. Suec. IV, 497; Erichs. Jen. Spec. Staph. 768; Kraatz 

 Ins. D. II, 830; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 119; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1879, 

 151; Ganglb. Kaf. M. II, 620). 



Very closely allied to f racticornis , but smaller, with darker anten- 

 nal base and legs, and more robustly punctated elytra, recognized also 

 by sex-characters in the O . 



Black, finely haired, somewhat glistening; elytra red or darkly 

 chestnut-brown, more rarely black; antennae entirely pitch-brown; mouth 

 and legs browni6h-red, femoral base darker. 



The head as broad as pronotum, dully shagreened, antennae short; pro- 

 notum somewhat narrower than in f racticornis , narrower than elytra, 

 about as long as broad, posteriorly narrowing and with almost rounded 

 off hind corners, sharply middle-grooved, rather robustly and densely 

 punctated, the surface densely shagreened, with somewhat dull shine; 

 elytra longer than pronotum, very robustly and densely punctated; abdom- 

 en sparsely punctated, more strongly glistening than the thorax; hind- 

 tibiae toward tip finely spiniferous. L. 3-3.5 mm. 



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