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 narrower than elytra, fully l£ times as broad as long, posteriorly slight- 

 ly narrowing ana with rounded-off hina corners, flatly convex, the re- 

 ticulation without punctures, sides flatly impressed, and at middle 

 with .three flat grooves, of which the middle-groove is a little broad- 

 ened anteriorly; elytra a little longer than pronotum, the aciculated 

 surface with especially fine and rather scattered punctation; abdomen 

 very finely and rather densely punctated; fore-tibiae at tip without 

 the usual incision in Oxytelin species. L. 2-2.5 mm. 



In the O the sixth ventral abdominal joint is without sex-charac- 

 ters, but the posterior margin of seventh joint is twice outcurved, 



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 at middle roundly dilated and somewhat thickened, before the dilation 

 slightly transversely depressed and more densely punctated (Fig. 167). 



Fig. i67. Last three ventral eoaominal joints in Gxytelus tetra - 

 carinatus clock. C? . 



Distributed everywhere in Europe, North Asia and North «merica, and 



in this country common at rotting fragments of plants and animals. 



14. 0. Fairmairei Pand. 



(Fand. Oat. Jren. 1567, 172; liuls. et Rey Hrevip. 1879, 97; Janglb. 

 Kaf. :.:. II, 644). 



L'.uch like tetracarinatus , from which it (acca. to Janglb.) mainly is 

 separated in, that the legs are brownish-black with readish knees and tar- 

 si, that the fore-tibiae Lear the usual incision at tip, that abdomen 

 is more strongly punctated, and that the sixth ventral abdominal joint 

 of the © has two small, anteriorly and- posteriorly abbreviated long 1 * - 



