(Page E£6) 



2. 0. insecatus &ravh. 



(Jravh. Hon. 189; Srichs. Kaf. I£k. Br. I, 589; Jen. Spec. Staph. 787; 

 Kraatz Ins. D. II, 852; Thoms. Skand. Col. Ill, 127; I.'uls. et Key Brevip. 

 1879, 51; Janglb. Kaf. U. II, 637). 



Somewhat narrower and more slender than rugosus, of which the red- 

 winged aberration it resembles; within the subgenera mainly recognized by 

 sculpture of the head and by short elytra. 



Black, glistening; elytra light brownish-red or yellowish-red, around 

 scutellum pitchy -brown; pronotum often brownish-red; antennae pitch-brown, 

 their second, third and fourth joints most often reddish; maxillary palpi 

 and legs reddish-yellow. 



Ihe head in tne 6 fully as broad as pronotum, in the Q distinctly nar- 

 rower than same, more convex than in rugosus , anteriorly not impressed, 

 nor shagreened or dull, (Page £57, but rather strongly glis- 

 tening, at middle anu tne clypeus simply and rather finely punctatea, the 

 sides longitudinally aciculated-punctated, the vertex most often with a 

 short middle-groove, the neck punctatea, not longitudinally aciculated, 

 glistening, antennae rather short and robust, their second and third joints 

 equally short; pronotum principally as in rugosus , in the Q however dis- 

 tinctly narrower than elytra; these are short, not longer than pronotum, 

 most often rather densely longitudinally-rugose punctated; abdomen very 

 densely and finely shagreened, and with isolated, very feeble scabrous 

 punctation, rather sparsely haired. L. 4-4.5 mm. 



In the O the head is larger than in the Q , with plump temples. The 

 sixtn ventral abdominal joint at middle of base with a short carina, and 



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