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 m idely distributed in Europe, North Asia and North America; in this 

 country sometimes numerous in gardens in compost and around hot-house 

 boxes, more rarely at brims of lakes and brooks in alluvium. 



11. T. gracilis Mannh. 



(Mannh. Brach. 51; Janglb. Kaf. U. II, £57. - tenellus Erichs. Kaf. 

 Ilk. Br. I, 605; (Jen. Spec. Staph. 811; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 880; Thorns. 

 Skand. Col. Ill, 137; Muls. et Rey 3revip. 1879, 311). 



Very closely allied to, and in form, color, sculpture and appearan- 

 ce much like pusillus , from which it is separated by a few deviations. 



The body is still somewhat narrower, very narrowly elongate (linear) , 

 The head as broad as pronotum, the eyes distinctly smaller, and temples 

 nearly as long as eyes, plumply rounded, pronotum longer and narrower, 

 as long as broad, a little narrower than elytra; these narrower and lon- 

 ger than in pusillus , l£ times as long as pronotum; abdomen longer, very 

 elongated. L. 1.2-1.5 mm. 



Distributed in Middle and North Europe; very rare in this country, 



in alluvium at water edges, and on marshy ground (Copenhagen at Lade- 



gaardsaa; Odense at Stavisaa, and in Munkemose; at Haderslev Earn). 



12. T. subtilis Er. 



(Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 606; Jen. Spec. Staph. 812; Kraatz Ins. D. 

 II, 881; Muls. et Rey Bre'vip. 1879, 314; Janglb. Kaf. U. II, 657). 



An especially fine, linear-narrow, elongate species, still narrower 

 than than gracilis , and in relation to this, wherev.ith it is closely al- 

 lied, recognized especially by entirely yellow antennae, small eyes and 

 longer pronotum without aistinct impressions. 



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