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 tooth, and the first four joints of fore-tarsi are rather strongly dilat- 

 ed. 



At water ed^es in alluvium, local and in this country rare, but at 

 times numerous in spots (at Esrom lake; Guldborgsund ; Haderslev pond, 

 Eanders, .Jravlev meadows and other places). 



2. A. brachyterum 3ravh. 



(iravh. Micropt. 114; Erichs. Sen. Spec. Staph. 859; Kraatz Ins. D. 



II, 959; Rey Brevip. 1880, 151; iJanglb. Kaf. M. II, 718; Thorns. Skand. 



Col. Ill, 189 (ex parte). - v. troglodytes Kiesw. Stett. Ent. Zeitg. VIII, 

 1847, 77= brachypterum Hardy). 



Rather narrow and of equal breadth, with more or less short elytra 

 and as a rule wingless. 



Pitch-black, finely haired, somewhat glistening; pronotum and elytra 

 most often reddish-brown with lighter margins; antennae, mouth and legs 

 reddi sh-yellow. 



The head with simple and indistinct punctation, its grooves before 

 the ocelli short, narrow and deep, and the impressions above antennal base 

 flat, temples rounded, about as long as the eyes, antennae rather long 

 and slender; pronotum as broad as elytra, a little broader than long, 

 with smoothly rounded sides, gradually convex, with fine and scattered 

 punctation, the surface especially finely shagreened and with a deep fo- 

 vea at middle of side-margins, which back of this most often are slight- 

 ly impressed. The elytra are much shorter than in quadrum , lj or only 

 1 '/3 times ( troglodytes Kiesw.) as long as pronotum, flat, rather densely 

 and finely punctated, posteriorly only feebly broadened; abdomen of even 

 breadth, finely and rather densely punctated. L. 3.5-4.5 mm. 



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