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ly shorter than the first four joints together. 



The species live under leaves and moss on the forest ground, in fungi 



and at outflowing treesap. Of 3 known European species 1 is found in 



this country. 



1. D. tectum Payk. 



(Payk. Mon. Staph. 68; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 627; Jen. Spec. Staph. 

 872; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 952; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 197; Rey Bre'vip. 

 1880, 117; Janglb. Kaf. U. II, 723). 



Together with the genus-characters inter alia easily identified by 

 the color. 



Black, glistening, scarcely haired; head and pronotum most often 

 with feeble metallic reflection; pronotal sides and posterior margin 

 brownish red; elytra yellowish-brown; base of antennae and the legs 

 reddish-yellow. 



Head short and broad, with very short temples, anteriorly almost 

 smooth, posteriorly with fine and scattered punctation and with the a- 

 bove mentioned grooves and impressions, antennae rather short, distinct- 

 ly thickened distally, their next-last joints somewhat broader than long; 

 pronotum twice as broad as long, posteriorly not much narrower than the 

 elytra, with rounded off hind corners, anteriorly slightly roundly nar- 

 rowing, slightly convex, with denser and more robust punctation than the 

 head, finely grooved in middle-line, side-margin before the middle with 

 a punctiformis fovea and from back of this to hind-corner with a gutter- 

 shaped impressed groove. Elytra more than It times as long as pronotum, 

 feebly broadened posteriorly, very densely and rather finely, here and 



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