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 Only 1 species is known, distributed in Europe. It lives like the 

 species of preceding ^enus on damp, swampy ground, and flies about to- 

 wards evening. 



1 . A. mandibularis Jy 1 1 h . 



(iyllh. Ins. Suec. IV, 468; "irichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 608; Jen. Spec. 

 Staph. 817; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 900; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 142; Muls. 

 et Rey Brevip. 1879, 237; Janglb. Kaf.M. II, 675). 



elongate ar.a rather narrow, easily recognized by the above cited 

 ,-enus characters. 



Reddish-yellow or brownish-yellow, finely haired, feebly glistening; 

 head pitch-brown; pronotum most often reddish-brown, sometimes darker. 



The head (Fig. 169) is not fully as broad as pronotum, with scat- 

 tered and not deep punctation, both distinctly shagreened, antennae rath- 

 er long and robust, their third joint longer than the second, the middle 

 ones oblong, the next-last four hardly broader than lon^, mandibles far 

 protruding; pronotum anteriorly as broad as long, posteriorly gradually 

 and feebly narrowing, with rather straight sides and almost rectangular 

 hind corners, considerably narrower than elytra, flatly convex, with rath- 

 er coarse and scattered, not deep punctation, and with an impunctated, 

 slightly elevated, anteriorly and posteriorly abbreviated middle-line, 

 which on eacn side before middle is bounded by a feeble impression. The 

 elytra are 1; times as long as pronotum, with rather robust, isolated 

 punctation, and with three feebly elevated, impunctate, posteriorly ab- 

 breviated longitudinal lines, the surface very densely, dully shagreen- 

 ed; abaomen very finely and densely shagreened; very fine and scattered 

 punctation. L. 6-7 mm. 



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