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 brown with black base; legs reddish-yellow or brownish red. 



The head with robust and very dense punctation, anteriorly however 

 less dense, foveae of forehead before the ocelli deep and rather long, 

 those at the fore-margin distinct, temples obliquely rounded off, amply 



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 half as long as the eyes, antennae smoothly thickened distally; pronotum 

 much narrower than elytra, broader than long, broadest across or behind 

 middle, anteriorly distinctly and rather strongly, posteriorly scarcely 

 narrowing, dorsum rather finely and densely punctated, with broad and flat- 

 ly set off, almost smooth side-margins, and on the middle with two ovate, 

 very deep longitudinal foveae; elytra twice as long as pronotum, robustly 

 and very densely punctated, with a more or less distinct oblique groove 

 across the dorsum downward to the sutural corner, and another groove along 

 the suture, also with sharp, proportionately broad, upturned side-margins; 

 abdomen very feebly shagreened, glistening, not punctated, its side-margins 

 broadly set off, upturned. L. 3.5 mm. 



Distributed in the entire Europe. In this country everywhere not rare 

 in alluvium on beaches and at lakes, under moist leaves on wooded ground, 

 in compost and like places. 



116. lienus Phyllodrepa Thorns. 



(Thorns. Skand. Gol. Ill, 2144- Hapalaraea Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 200. 

 - Bey BreVip. 1880, 228-f Hapalaraea Brevip. 1880, 280; Janglb. Kaf. U. II, ' 

 738). 



Phyllodrepa is separated from Omalium in that, the body most often is 



of more even breadth, inasmuch as pronotum is only a little narrower than 



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