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 On damp, rich friable soil, in compost, on the strand under seaweed 

 and at water edges under leaves; distributee; in i.'orth and Middle Europe, 

 but rare or in this country very rare and local (Jaegersborg Lyrehave, 

 the strand at Dyreborg, Vestfyen). Also found in Skaane (Thorns.). 



5. T. impressus Lac. 



(Boisd. Lac. ?eun. int. Paris I, 467; ianglb. Kaf. '..'.. II, 653. - 

 inquilinus Brichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 603; Kraatz Ins.- D. II, 874; iiuls. 

 et Fey Bre'vip. 1379, 265). 



From the following species, corticinus , which it is most like, and 

 with which it corresponds in the identifiable punctation of head ana pro- 

 notum, it is mainly separated by a broader form of body, somewhat more 

 slender antennae, and by the stronger punctation of elytra. 



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Elack, finely haired, somewhat glistening; the antennae and maxil- 

 lary palpi pitch-black or pitch-brown; the first antennal joint, knees, 

 tip of tibiae and tarsi brownish-red or reddish-yellow; legs sometimes 

 brownish-red. 



The body across elytra somewhat broadened; head but little narrower 

 than pronotum, and together with seme very densely and finely punctated, 

 with distinctly separated punctures, and dully glistening, forehead anter- 

 iorly on each side with short impression, eyes rather large, twice as 

 long as the temples, antennae rather short, at middle a little more slen- 

 der than in corticinus , their third joint considerably shorter than the 

 second, the fourth, fifth and sixth as long as broad, the seventh and fol- 

 lowing (7-IC) transverse; pronotum much narrower than elytra, in pro- 



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