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In relation to the rest of our species identifiable especially by 

 longer elytra. 



Black or pitch-black, rather glistening, finely haired; elytra sone- 

 -. ires lighter or darker pitchy-brown; antennae, £outh-part6, and legs 

 as a rule cronnish red, the firs:, antennal joints, feaora and tibiae 

 nonever often darker. 



Head and pronotom are densely and rather robustly punctated, grooves 

 of forehead anteriorly foveate deepened, antennae [Fig. 175) long, slen- 

 der, longer than r.ead and pronotum together; pronotum cordate, with al- 

 most rectangular hind corners, and finely but completely margined sides; 

 elytra iis".r.otly more than mice as long &e pronotum, sosenhat more ro- 

 bustly punctated than same, posteriorly only feebly broadsRel; abdomen very 

 finely and densely punctated. L. 4-5 on. 



Fig. 175. Lesteva iongelytrata Joeze. 



distributed and everywhere oomor. at *ater-edge s, especially :-. and- 



round, under leaves and alluvium. It varies according to abode (?) 



llffering in color, lustre, vestiture etc.; a darkly colored, e".r;ngly 



glistening, sparsely n^irei for* r. aanra Br« ~ ...-. found at _=rom 



lake . 



2. 1 . pnbescene Innnh 



Uannh. Eracnei. c~. Brichs. :•:-:". nk. Ir. I, £17; Jen. Spec. '-aph. 

 ---.i ins. :. ::. . . 3ol. :::, U BreVip. 



ranglt . EaJ . U. II, 73 



Shorter and proportionately broader than 1 :.--;- ... '.rala , recojnixed 



sipally -. *.r.e fine or ver;. :. rax. 



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