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 turned side-margins; legs long and slender, tibiae scarcely spiniferous, 

 the tarsi, among all other Omaliinl especially remarkable in, that each 

 claw at base is provided with a small membranous pad; hind tarsi are 

 shorter than the tibiae, their first joint elongate, longer than the sec- 

 ond, claw-joint shorter than the first four joints together. 



In the & the sixth ventral abdominal joint emarginate at tip; in sev- 

 eral (foreign) species is furthermore the head especially large, and man- 

 dibles and temples peculiarly strongly developed, sometimes the forehead 

 is on each side armed with an acute horn. 



The species live on bushes and flowers and are especially destribut- 

 ed in mountainous and northern regions. Of those in Middle and North 

 Europe native 15 species, only 1 is found in Denmark. 



1. A. caraboldes Linn. 



(Linne Syst. Nat. Ed. X, 422; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 18C; Janglb. Kaf. 

 M. II, 70S. - testaceus iravh. Micr. 121; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 615; Sen. 

 Spec. Staph. 851; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 924; Rey Bre'vip. 1880, 46). 



Somewhat larger than Lesteva Longelytrata Goeze ( bicolor Er.), and a- 

 mong the other species of the genus recognized by the smooth, not sha- 

 greened surface of the head (subg. Pha^anthus Rey) also by especially 

 long, slender antennae, and by the color. 



Reddish-yellow, glistening, sparsely and finely haired; abdomen be- 

 fore the tip most often brownish, sometimes more exstensively blackish 

 brown; head and pronotum brownish red. 



The head (Fig. 174) is across the strongly protruding eyes in both 

 sexes nearly as broad as pronotum, robustly and rather densely punc'„_ 



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