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Black, sometimes brownish-black, rather dully glistening; head and 

 pronotum with extremely fine, elytra and especially abdomen with distinct 

 and dense silky glistening gray hair vestiture; elytra brown; antennae, 

 mouth-parts and legs reddish-yellow; elytra sometimes brownish shaded 

 toward tip. 



The head is feebly constricted behind, before the constriction as 

 broad as pronotum, with small eyes and a little longer temples, eyes 

 smaller and temples longer than in gracilis , head and pronotum extrem- 

 ely finely and densely punctated-shagreened, antennae like those of 



pusillus ; (Page 579) pronotum 



hardly as broad as elytra, as long as broad, with anteriorly slightly 

 rounded sides, and posteriorly narrowing, without distinct or with two 

 very feeble longitudinal impressions at middle posteriorly; abdomen e- 

 longate, extremely finely and densely punctated-shagreened. L. 1.2-1.5 mm. 



Eistributed in Middle Europe, especially on sandy river shores; in 

 this country heretofore, as far as known, found only in Munkemose at 

 Odense (N. P. Jergensen). 



Of Trogophloeus species with head not constricted behind (Subgenus 

 Troglnus Muls. et Rey) none are heretofore found in this, country. One 

 single species, T. exiguus Er. , which is widely distributed in Middle 

 Europe, may possibly be found. It is (ianglb. Kaf. M. II, 658) rather 

 cylindrical of form and resembles a small Bledius , black with brownish- 

 red mandibles, antennal base, knees, tibiae and tarsi; head and prono- 

 tum are densely shagreened, rather dull, impressions on the latter very 



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