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 6trongly rounded, posteriorly incurved sides and obtuse angular, yet 

 distinctly formed hind corners, convex, sharply middle-grooved, rather 

 finely and not densely punctated; elytra considerably longer than~pro- 

 notum, longer than their breadth together, densely and rather robustly 

 punctated; abdomen almost without punctation; hind tibiae at tip with 

 a few, fine spines. L. 3-4 mm. 



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

 on each side of t:.e prominent middle distinctly ecarginate. 



Heretofore only recorded from Denmark, England, Scotland and Skaane 

 (?). In this country it is local and as a whole rare; it occurs especially 

 on sandy river- and lake-brims at or in the nearness of the strand, and 

 on moist, sandy heather ground In the down-regions (Skagen, Raabjerg, 

 Blokhus, Klitmeller and at Vandet lake in Thy; EotjS; I.'eksd.'. 



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21. £1. pallipes iravn. 



(Jravh. Mon. 197; irichs. ien. Spec. Staph. 772; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 

 824; Schi/adte Nat. Tidsskr. III. P. 1866, 149; Janglb. Kaf. 1Z. II, 618. - 

 ? pallipes Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 119). 



Father narrow and of equal breadth; among the closest allied black 

 species especially recognized by the light color of the legs and the punc- 

 tiformis fovea of the vertex. 



Black, somewhat glistening, with duller head and pronotum, finely hair- 

 ed; the mouth most often brownish-red; antennal base and especially the 

 legs pale reddish-yellow. 



The head is almost as broad as pronotum and with a punctiforrais fovea 



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