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 posteriorly feebly narrowing; elytra more than twice as long as prono- 

 tum, somewhat broadened posteriorly and with rounded-off hind corners; 

 abdomen as broad as elytra and with broad upturned, sharp side-margins, 

 toward tip roundly-narrowed; legs rather short, tibiae finely haired, not 

 splniferous, hind tarsi distinctly shorter than tibiae, their first two 

 joints longer than the two following, claw-joint shorter than the first 

 four joints together. 



The species are most at hone in the alpine and northern countries. 

 Of the three European species known, one is found in this country. 



1. C. angusticolle Steph. 



(Steph. 111. Brit. V, 344; Kraatz Berl. Ent. Zeitschr. 1857, 1. I, 

 4, Fig. a; Ins. D. II, 971; Rey Brevip. 1880, 395; ianglb. Kaf. M. II, 

 702. - ? bifoveolatus Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 186). 



Identified especially by the generic characters and in connection 

 therewith by the color. 



Pitch-black or pitch-brown, finely and sparsely haired, somewhat 



glistening; (Page 585) - - pronotum 



most often brown and the elytra reddish-brown; mouth, antennal base, 

 and the legs reddish-yellov. . 



The head across the protruding eyes fully as broad as pronotum, 

 and together with same rather densely and robustly punctated, forehead 

 anteriorly with two flat foveae and the vertex with two distinct ocilli, 

 antennae rather slender, their next-last joints a little longer than 

 broad; pronotum anteriorly about li times as broad as long, with rather 

 strongly rounded sides and very finely serrated side-margins, posteriorly 



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