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In the O the posterior margin of the sixth ventral abdominal joint 

 at middle incurv?*te and bordered with a light membrane and on each side 

 of the curve with a small tooth. 



Distributed in r/.iddle Europe, everywhere rare. In this country very 

 rare, and heretofore found only in western Jutland (Breininggaard, east 

 of Ringkebing, at a water-place 1857, Dr. Meinert;' Kjettrupgaard at 

 Blokhus, July, Kmrhr. Fabr. de Tengnagel). 



11. Bl. longulus Er. 



(Erichs. Kaf. Uk. Br. I, 579; Sen. Spec. Staph. 768; Kraatz Ins. D. 

 II, 830; Muls. et Fey Bre'vip. 1879, 146; Ganglb. Kaf. U. II, 619). 



A small species, identified by proportionately narrow head, robust 

 punctation, middle-grooved pronotum, the rather strong gloss of the body, 

 and the color of elytra. 



Glistening black, very sparsely haired; elytra vividly red or yellow- 

 ish-red; antennae of.ten brownish at middle, elsewhere together with 

 mouth and legs reddish-yellow. 



The head is considerably narrower than pronotum, posteriorly with 



simple punctation, (Page 543) the surface 



finely shagreened, antennae short; pronotum about as broad as elytra 

 and about as long as broad, posteriorly narrowed and with obtuse-angu- 

 lar, as a rule distinct hind corners, rather convex, sharply middle- 

 grooved, coarse, but not dense punctation, the surface rather finely 

 reticulated; elytra somewhat longer than pronotum, with denser and much finer 

 punctation than same; abdomen almost smooth; hind tibiae at tip with fine 

 single spines. L. 3-3.5 mm. 



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