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Ordinarily it is somewhat larger and broader than atrocephalum . and 

 posteriorly more broadened, but across the elytra more flattish convex; 

 impressions of the head before the ocelli on vertex are broader, anten- 

 nae longer, pronotal hind corners sharper, its middle-groove and impres- 

 sions behind this feebler, often entirely obliterated; elytra shorter, 

 twice as long as pronotum, posteriorly distinctly broadened, their punc- 

 tation only indistinctly rowed. L. 3.5 mm. 



Distributed in Middle and North Europe, but more local and far less 

 frequent than the preceding species; in this country mainly found in the 

 islands on damp forest and marshy ground. 



4. L. fusculum Sr. 



(Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 626; 5en. Spec. Staph. 870; Kraatz Ins. D. 

 II, 947; Rey Brevip. 1880, 131; Sanglb. Kaf. M. II, 722). 



Smaller, flatter and narrower than atrophalum and with shorter, more 

 densely punctated elytra. 



Pitch-brown or pitch-black, dully glistening, naked; sides of pro- 

 notum and the elytra brown; antennae most often entirely pitch-brown, 

 their basal joint sometimes reddish; legs brownish yellow. 



The head is densely, distinctly more densely punctated than in atro - 

 cephalum , its impressions, especially the foremost ones, most often deep- 

 er than in same, antennae shorter and their middle joints less slender; 

 pronotum somewhat narrower than elytra, hardly twice as broad as long, 

 with rather broadly opturned sides and almost rounded off hind corners, 

 flatly convex, with rather robust, dense punctation, in middle-line most 

 often finely grooved, and behind the groove with two distinct, oblique 



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