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upturned side-margins; legs short, tibiae not spiniferous, tarsi short, 



their first four joints very short, and the claw-joint more than twice 



as long as these together. 



The species live under the bark of insect-infested deciduous and pi- 



nacious trees. In North and Middle Europe 2 species are distributed, 



but heretofore only one of these is found in Denmark. 



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1. Ph. plana Payk. 



(Payk. Mon. Cure. App. 145; Erichs. Ka'f. Mk. Br. I, 636; Jen. Spec. 

 Staph. 886; Kraatz Ins. C. II, 986; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 208; Rey Bre'- 

 vip. 1880, 173; Jang lb. Ka'f. U. II, 732). 



Recognized by the above stated genus-characters. 



Black, rather glistenin;, thorax naked, abdomen sparsely and very fine- 

 ly haired; elytra most often pitch-brown, more rarely yellowish-brown with 

 a dark spot around the scutellum; antennae dark toward tip, their first 

 five joints, mouth-parts and legs yellowish-red. 



The surface of thorax is finely reticulated; the head a little narrower 

 than pronotum, with scattered and rather fine punctation, with two short, 

 linear, deep forehead grooves, antennae short, their last six joints club- 

 formed set off, and much more robust than the preceding, the sixth nearly 

 as broad as the following four, and like these strongly transverse, the 

 distal joint oval with set off tip. Pronotum a little narrower than el- 

 ytra, approximately twice as broad as long, narrowing posteriorly, with 

 slightly rounded, finely margined sides and obtuse angular hind corners, 

 flatly convex, a little uneven, isolated and fine punctation, in the mid- 

 dle-line feebly grooved, the fore-margin with two distinct bosses and a 



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