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 gined. Ihe seventh joint is by two deep, narrow incisions divided into 

 three parts, of which the side-parts are tapering and a little longer 

 than the obtuse middle-part, which at middle has a feeble boss or carina. 

 In manure and under rotting plants, also in alluvium; distributed in 

 Europe and North Asia; everywhere in this country and not rare. 



Pig. 162. Last three ventral abdominal joints in Oxytelus laque - 



atus Marsh, o 

 Fig. 163. Last three ventral abdominal joints in Oxytelus piceus 



Linn. <^ . 



3. Subgenus Bpomotylus Thorns. 



6. 0. sculptus Jravh. 



(iravh. Mon. 191; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 591; Jen. Spec. Staph. 788; 

 Kraatz Ins. D. II, 855; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 128; I.'.uls. et Rey Bre'vip. 

 187S, 57; ianglb. Kaf. M. II, 639). 



From piceus, of which the Q in appearance, and especially in regard 

 to its large, coarsely faceted eyes it is very much alike, it is easily 

 separated inter alia by longer antennae, and by the form of first joint 

 of these, from all the follov»ing by the size i'f the eyes, extremely short, 

 or indistinct temples, and by a fine, ingraved line at the side-margin 

 of elytra. 



Pitch-black, glistening; pronotum at middle often reddish-brown; el- 

 ytra brownish-red or brownish-yellow with dark suture, sometimes trown; 

 base of antennae, and the mouth-parts brownish reddish-yellow; legs yel- 

 low. 



The head in both sexes narrower than pronotum, with very large eyes 

 and almost without temples, triangle-shaped, anteriorly between bosses 



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