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 there rowed-punctated; abdomen with very fine, scattered punctation. 

 L. 3-3.5 mm. 



Distributed throughout Middle and North iSurope. In this country here- 

 tofore only found singly in Tisvilde Hegn on sap-flowing tree stubs (25. 

 5. 1890 1 specimen and 18. 6. 1896 1 specimen Lavendal). In Skaane it is 

 also found in manure (Thorns.). 



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 109. Jenus Acidota Steph. 



(Steph. 111. Brit. V, 357; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 620; ien. Spec. 

 Staph. 860; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 93b; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 203; Key 

 Brevip. 1880, 101; ianglb. Kaf. M. II, 716). 



The body is elongate of rather equal breadth and flat or flattieh 

 convex, scarcely haired; head in proportion to pronotum small, with round 

 strongly protruding eyes, only feebly developed temples, transversally 

 grooved or transversally impressed vertex, distinct ocelli, with or with- 

 out distinct impressions on forehead, and with entire or only at sides 

 upturned fore-margin, antennae nearly moniliform, quite robust, last 

 joint of maxillary palpi more than twice as long as the next-last. 



Pronotum slightly convex, as broad or nearly as broad as elytra, 

 hardly narrowing posteriorly, with slightly rounded, margined sides and 

 with a fovea at middle of the narrowly upturned side-margin; elytra with 

 striped punctation, longer than pronotum, with parallel sides and round- 

 ed off hind corners; abdomen as broad as elytra, with broadly upturned 

 sidemargins and with more robust punctation than in any other closely al- 

 lied genus; legs rather sturdy, tibiae more or less finely spiniferous. 



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