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 and its fore-margin with a very fine spine at each side. In the typical 

 form the seventh ventral abdominal joint bears at middle a slight im- 

 pression with more or less sharp side-margins, which are spiniform, pro- 

 duced out over the posterior margin; this at each side with a very small 

 tooth. 



Principally distributed in the southern Middle Europe; in Denmark 

 it is heretofore taken only singly at Panders (0. Jakobsen) and Copen- 

 hagen (Schiodte). In Skaane found at Lund under rotting plants (Thorns.). 



93. }enus Oxy telus Jravh. 



(Jravh. Micr. 1802, 101; Erichs. K#f. Mk. Br. I, 588; Jen. Spec. Staph. 

 785; Kraatz Ins. C. II, 847; Muls. et Rey Bre'vip. 1879, 43; Janglb. HSf. 

 I... II, 633. - Oxy telus -h Caccoporus f- apomotylus .f» Tanycraerus ->- Anotylus 

 'ihoms. Skand. Col. Ill, 126-130). 



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Body of rather equal breadth and flatly depressed, anteriorly scarse- 

 ly haired; head porrect, constricted behind, but with short and broad neck, 

 most often with small, more rarely large eyes, and in proportion to these 

 longer or very short temples; antennae but feebly geniculated, thickened 

 distally, inserted under a boss before the eyes, their first joint longest; 

 mandibles rather robust, dentate, not very prominent; last joint of maxil- 

 lary palpi spiculiform. 



Pronotum transverse, with rather straight f ore-i_argin, posteriorly 

 feebly rounded and more or less narrowed, sides smoothly marginated, some- 

 times finely sculptured, dorsal plane more or less distinctly tri-sulcate, 

 and together with head and elytra most often longitudinally rugose or lon- 



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