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 elytra; the antennae are shorter and their next-last four joints more 

 transverse; pronotum more smoothly convex, its two longitudinal impres- 

 sions at middle either entirely obliterated or very feeble; mesothorax 

 without carina in the middle-line; hind tarsi longer, nearly as long as 

 tibiae. From Xylodromus it is separated namely by, that the antennae are 

 not of even thickness, but that their next-last four joints together with 

 the distal joint form an elongate, five-jointed, rather robust club, and 

 that the claw-joints of hind tarsi are a little longer, most often fully 

 as long as the preceding four joints together. This becomes of importance 

 especially in Subgenus Dropephylla , in which the narrow, equally broad 

 species resemble the Xylodromus species. 



Of the in Middle and North Europe distributed 14 species, 7 are here- 

 tofore found in this country. They live partly under the bark of insect- 

 infested trees, where their larvae supposedly are pursuing the young of 

 the bark -beetles; they likewise can be found in flowers and at outflow- 

 ing tree-sap, more rarely in fungi and under leaves. 

 Key to Subgenera and 8pecie6. 



1. Forehead with two small foveae or linear grooves before the ocelli: 1. 



Subgenus Phyllodrepa s. str 2. 



Forehead before ocelli without foveae or grooves 5. 



2. Elytra not, or indistinctly rowed punctated; the punctures mutually 



connected by fine lines *«3. 



Elytra distinctly rowed punctated; punctures mutually not connected 

 by lines ' 



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