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The head is finely and not densely, less smoothly punctated than in 

 depressus , fore-margin and forehead posteriorly before the ocelli almost 

 smooth, antennae same as in depressus ; pronotum a little shorter than in 

 this, and less densely punctated; elytra likewise shorter, not twice as 

 long as pronotum, finely and rather densely punctated, at middle and pos- 

 teriorly finely and feebly, irregularly longitudinally striped. L. 3 mm. 



Distributed like the preceding species; in this country however seem- 

 ingly more local, most often found in refuse in stables, outhouses, cellars 

 and bakeries, also in hollow trees and old straw, more rarely in fungi on 

 trees. Rare in Sweden (Thorns.). 



113. Jenus Phloeostiba Thorns. 



(Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 208; Rey Bre'vip. 1880, 171. - Phloeonomus 

 ian^lb. (ex parte) Kaf. M. II, 731). 



The body is oblong, of even breadth, narrow and flat; the head broad 

 and short, triangular-shape, constricted behind, with lar^e, protruding 

 eyes and very short, oblique temples, forehead broad and flat, vertex 

 with distinct ocelli and two short, sharp forehead -grooves, at fore-margin 

 with two feeble impressions, antennae rather short, their last six joints 

 gradually thickened, last joint of maxillary palpi distinctly thinner and 

 scarcely lonjer than the next-last. 



Pronotum is broad, only a little narrower than elytra, posteriorly 

 feebly narrowing, , in middle-line feebly or indistinctly grooved, some- 

 times with two small bosses on fore-margin; elytra distinctly longer than 

 pronotum, parallel; abdomen evenly broad with set off, rather broad, not 



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