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 back of this, immediate on posterior margin two very small .granules, placed 

 close together. The seventh ventral joint is formed like that of ru^osus . 

 distributed throughout the greatei part of ^urope; everywhere, also in 

 this country, rare and local. Here and there in Sjaelland, Moen una Kalster, 

 mostly on hijh ground under stones; at udense it was taken from alluvium. 



3. 0. elegans P.'.ein. 



inert Bntom. Medd. II. B., 1889-90, 257. - ? bppelsheimi bethe Stett. 

 int. 2eit. 1867, 3Cb. - ?? ru L ;ifrons hochh. Dull. J'osc. Id-it, 189; Janglb. 

 Kaf. M. II, 637). 



From rugif rons , which it very much resembles, it is separated princip- 

 ally by darker, more dully glistening elytra, dull shagreened neck, and by 



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difference in the sex-characters of the O . 



Pale red with blackish head, antennae at middle darker; legs an~ tip 

 of abdomen vivid yellow. 



head in both sexes narrower than pronotum, forehead at middle feeb- 

 ly convex, with fine, scattered punctation, rather smooth, posteriorly 

 very short-jrooved, the sides with a distinct longitudinal impression; 

 pronotum almost cordate, with distinctly round-serrated sides, coarsely 

 punctated, indistinctly tri-grooved and with an impression along the sides; 

 elytra broader than long, and at the suture shorter than pronotum, rugose 

 punctation, posteriorly distinctly smoother. L. 4 mm. 



In the the fifth ventral abdominul joint at middle of posterior mar- 

 gin armed with a very small boss; the sixth joint at middle with a lon- 

 gitudinal impression, and at middle of posterior margin two very small 

 bosses, the seventh with a deep double incision. (accd. to F. t/.einert) . 



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