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Distributed, but rare; in compost, at manure-boxes and under rotting 



plants in gardens, in *oods under leaves; often found crawling on walls 



of houses, especially in the autumn. 



(Subdivision Trogophloeina Uuls. et Rey.) 



98. Jenus Irogophloeus fjlannh. 



('.iannh. Bracn. <i9; -richs. Kaf. ILk. Er. I, 599; Jen. Spec. Staph. 

 8C1; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 866; I.'.uls. et Rey Brevip. 1879, 255; Jangle. 

 Kaf. U. II, 647. - Garpalimus Trogophloeus Taenosoma Thorns. Skand. Col. 

 Ill, 133, 134, 136). 



Body most often rather elongate and narrov. , slightly flatly depres- 

 sed or somewhat cylindrical, more rarely somewhat broad, finely gray-hair- 

 ed; the head porrect, posteriorly most often, more rarely not constricted, 

 with rather large, round, somewhat protruding eyes and most often with 

 distinctly developed temples; antennae very feebly or not geniculate, 

 their last three joints somewhat larger than the middle ones; last joint 

 of maxillary palpi very small, spiculiform. 



Pronotum is more or less cordate, without middle-groove, out the 

 dorsum ordinarily with two arcuate or several foveate impressions; scu- 

 tellum is not visible; elytra posteriorly evenly truncated and in the 

 suture-angle closed'; abdomen most often of equal breadth, side-margin- 

 ez; middle-coxae mutually close set; legs short, tibiae not spiniferous, 

 tarsi 2-jointed with long claw-joint and very short inner joints. Con- 

 siderable or conspicuous difference between the o and Q does not occur. 



The species live on damp friable ground, at tr.e ea;es of waters under 

 leaves and like places, where they root in the mould surface and around 

 roots of plants. The name Trogophloeus , which denotes living under bark, 



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 * denotes tight or close fitting - translator. 



