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 Distributed in North and Kiddle Europe. Rather common in Denmark, 

 here and there numerous on sandy beaches and and damp places in the downs, 

 more rarely farther inland. Its extensive dwellings on the strand is easi- 

 ly recognized by innumerable, small, upturned sand-mounds ; they are washed 

 over by the tide-water, but the animals then go deeper down in the sand. 



18. Bl. talpa Gyllh. 



(iyllh. Ins. Suec. II, 448; Erichs. Sen. Spec. Staph. 777; Kraatz Ins. 



D. II, 823; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 122 (Astycops); Schiedte Nat. Tidsskr. 



III. R. 1866, 150; Kuls. et Rey BreVip. 1879, 196; 3anglb. Kaf. M. II, 

 624). 



A proportionately broad species of robust structure, easily identified 



by the elytral color. 



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Black, distinctly gray-haired, glistening, with dull head and pro- 

 notum; elytra darkly metallic-blue; tarsi reddish. 



The head (Fig. 157) is narrower than pronotum and together with 

 same feebly, sometimes indistinct, scattered punctation, the surface of 

 both very finely and densely dully-shagreened, labrum with a deep inci- 

 sion at middle, and thereby bilobed, mandibles prominent, antennae rather 

 long; pronotum much narrower than elytra, broadly cordate, with posterior- 

 ly deeply incurved sides and rectangular hind corners, slightly convex, 

 very finely middle-grooved; elytra 1* times as long as pronotum and togeth- 

 er as broad as long, rather robustly and densely punctated; abdomen sparse- 

 ly punctated; hind tibiae with a single spine at tip. L. 4.5-5 mm. 



In the o the posterior margin of two ventral abdominal joints at each 

 side slightly incurved- (Fig. 157. Bledius talpa iyllh.) 



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