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tated, considerably more robust than in salicis , its first free dorsal 



joint at middle with two small, grayish glistening spots. L. 4-5 mm. 



Distributed in Middle end North Europe; rare in this country; under 



bark; of infested trees and on stubs, in hollow trees, at tree-sap and 



fungi (Vicinity of Copenhagen, Hillered; Frisenborg Forests, Panders, Lin- 



dum Forest and several other places). - The larvae is found in tindery 



beech by Ilr. E. Rosenberg, and reared, 25. 4. 1895. 



2. Subgenus Dropephylla Rey. 



5. Ph. ioptera Steph. 



(Steph. 111. Brit. V, 349; 3anglb. Ka'f. M. II, 741. - lucida Srichs. 

 Kaf. Uk. Br. I, 634; Sen. Spec. Staph. 881; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 905; Thorns. 

 Skand. Col. Ill, 215; Rey Bre'vip. 1880, 242). 



A rather small and narrow, evenly broad species, easily recognized 

 by the color. 



Reddish-yellow with black head, glistening, very finely and sparsely 

 haired; elytra around the scutellum and posteriorly before the tip pitch 

 black, sometimes more extensively black or pitch-black, so that only the 

 humeri and sides are reddish-yellow; abdomen more or less extensively black 

 and metathorax likewise pitch-black or dark; antennae toward the tip most 

 often brownish. 



The head robustly and densely punctated, without foveae before the o- 

 celli, but with two flat: impressions at fore-margin, antennae rather short, 

 thickened distally; pronotum only a little narrower than elytra, a little 

 broader than long, posteriorly feebly narrowing, with slightly rounded sides 

 and nearly rectangular corners posteriorly, slightly convex, robustly and 



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