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 and a fine groove along inner margin of the eye; pronotum anteriorly as 

 broad as elytra, almost twice as broad as long, sharply middle-grooved; 

 elytra as long as pronotum, with distinct suture-stripe and finely me - 

 gined posterior margin; abdomen not punctated, surface feebly reticulat- 

 .£-3 mm. 

 In the $ the head is broader than in the j> and the antennae longer; 

 the seventh ventral abdominal joint at middle and posteriorly witn a 

 smooth, oviform, nore or less distinct impression. 



On damp grouna, distributed in North and Middle Europe, with us rath- 

 er rare. 



Z. F. nitens Sahib. 



(3ahlb..Ins. Fenn. I, 413; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 845; Thorns. Skand. Col. 

 Ill, 124; Uuls. et Rey Brevip. 1879, 38; ianglb. Kaf. L*. II, 638. - var. 

 strlatulus Heer Faun. helv. 218). 



As a whole very closely allied to, and in color like nodif rons , with 

 which it sometimes is united (Eriche. >er.. Spec. Staph. 783). Ordinarily 

 It is however smaller, always more glistening, specular; the thorax, espe- 

 cially pronotum and elytra, with much finer and more scattered punctation, 

 the head in both sexes about as broad as pronotum, its grooves finer or' 

 sometimes feeble; pronotum a little longer than in nodifrans , and poster- 

 iorly more narrowing; foveae of scutellum at base finer, punctiformis; 

 elytral suture-groove fine. L. 2-3 mm. 



In the O the head is very little larger than in the £ , but the fore- 

 jmetimes on each side, besides the groove along inner margin of 

 eye, inside of this with two impressed longitudinal lines ( stri- ~ 



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