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 slightly grooved, posteriorly most often with a feeble transversal im- 

 pression at middle; elytra same as in the following species, but more 

 regularly rowed-punctated and between the rows with rows of finer punc- 

 tures; abdomen extremely finely punctated. L. 3.5-4 mm. (accd.to Janglb. 

 and Kraatz). 



Distributed in Middle Europe and also found in Sweden and Norway. 

 heretofore not discovered in Eenmark; but its occurence here is not im- 

 probable. 



2. L. atrocephalum CJyllh. 



(Jyllh. Ins. Suec. IV, 463; Erichs. Ka'f. Mk. Er. I, 625; Jen. Spec. 

 Staph. o70; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 964; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 195; Rey Bre- 

 vip. 1880, 128; Janglb. Ka'f. M. II, 722. - melanocephalum Matsh. nee. Illig-) 



Our most common species, somewhat varying in color, but in relation 

 to the following species ordinarily easily identified by that to the light- 

 er colored body contrasting black head. 



Lighter or darker yellowish-brown, somewhat glistening, naked; head 

 black or in yet teneral animals pitch-brown; antennal base, mouth-parts 

 and legs reddish-yellow. Entirely black specimens (v. nigrum) may occur. 



.The body (Fig. 178) is short, broad and slightly convex; the head 

 much narrower than pronotum, anteriorly nearly smooth or simple punctati- 

 on, with two flat impressions inside antennal base, posteriorly more ro- 

 bust and rather densely punctated, and with an oblique impression on each 

 side of forehead before the small ocelli, antennae fully as long as head 

 and pronotum together, distinctly thickened distally, their middle joints 

 rather slender, the next-last about as broad as long; pronotum twice as 



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