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Distributed in the northerrtpart of Middle Europe and in North Euro- 

 pe. In our country rare and local; on small sandy brinks at streams and 

 on lake shores (Blokhus, Lerbaek, Silkeborg; at Furs.e and Esrom lake, 

 Tisvilde and other places). Its burrows lie rather deep and are not 

 very noticeable on the surface. 



The larva is described and illustrated by I. Schiodte (Nat. Tidsskr. 

 III. R. 3. B., 214, T. XII, Fig. 23). 



19. Bl. subterraneus Er. 



(Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 584; Sen. Spec. Staph. 777; Kraatz Ins. D. 

 II, 823; Schiodte Nat. Tidsskr. III. R. 1866, 150; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 

 1879, 199; Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 624. - ? pallipes Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 

 119). 



Closely allied to talpa and like this with bilobed labrum, but smal- 

 ler, with narrower, proportionately longer elytra. 



Black, finely haired, rather glistening, with dull head and pronotum; 

 antennae pitch-brown, sometimes with lighter base; mouth and legs brown- 

 ish-yellow, femora often darker. 



The head is a little narrower than pronotum, both with surface very 

 densely and finely dull-shagreened, mandibles prominent, labrum at middle 

 deeply incised and thereby bilobed, antennae rather short; pronotum dis- 

 tinctly narrower than elytra, lk times as broad as long, with rounded, 

 posteriorly sudden incurved sides and prominent, acute rectangular hind 

 corners, convex, finely middle-grooved, isolated and flat punctation; 

 elytra almost twice as long as pronotum, and longer than their breadth 

 together, finely and densely punctated; abdomen sparsely punctated; hind 

 tibiae with a single, fine spine at tip. L. 4-4.5 mm. 



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