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This genus deviates from the preceding Oxytelin i genera by the short, 

 thick and rather broad form of the body, and the bronze lustre (in the 

 European species), and in appearance comes nearest to the Omaliini . from 

 which it inter alia differs by the abscence of ocelli, and by the short 

 trochanter of posterior coxae. 



The head is narrower than pronotum, posteriorly feebly constricted, 

 with proportionately large, protruding eyes and very short temples; an- 

 tennae same as in Trogophloeus ; clypeus sharply bounded by forehead; 

 maxillary palpi rather robust, their last joint as long as the third, 

 and at base almost as thick as this, from middle tapering. 



Pronotum much narrower than elytra, with narrow, finely and acutely 

 serrated side-margins, and acute hind corners, the dorsum posteriorly 

 with two rounded, obliquely placed impressions, separated by an impunc- 

 tate middle-line; elytra together broader than long, with slightly round- 

 ed-off outer corners, and broadly mutually emarginate posterior margin; 

 abdomen as broad as elytra, with sharp, elevated, rather broad side- 

 margins; middle-coxae contiguous; legs lather short, tibiae not spini- 

 ferous, tarsi 5-jointea, claw-joint about as long as the preceding four 

 joints together, with widely spread claws. 



To this only 1 European species, widely distributed in Middle and 



North Europe and also found in this country. An other species is known 



from Alaska. (Page 581) 



1. S. aeneum Hull. 



(Muller 3erm. Mag. IV, 216; Erichs. 3en. Spec. Staph. 821; Kraatz 

 Ins. D. II, 892; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 141; Muls. et Rey Bre'vip. 1879, 

 383; Janglb. Kaf, M. II, 681). 



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