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3. Subgenus Hapalaraea Thorns. 



8. Ph. pygmaea Jyllh. 



(Jyllh. Ins. Suec. II, 223; Erichs. Jen. Spec. Staph. 883i Kraatz Ins. 

 D. II, 1001; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 201; Rey Bre'vip. 1880, 282; Ganglb. 

 Kaf. U. II, 742). 



This species deviates from the preceding by a more oval formed, some- 

 what convex body, and especially by the peculiar sex-characters of cf . 

 Subgenus Hapalaraea is therefore by Thomson elevated to generic status, 

 ranking equally with the preceding and following. 



Reddish-yellow, distinctly whitish haired, rather glistening; the head 

 and posterior part of elytra, also middle of dorsal abdominal joints some- 

 times brownish. 



The head is much narrower than pronotum, without temples, rather dense- 



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 ly and finely punctated, with two flat impressions at fore-margin, and two, 

 often indistinct, very short, small foveae on the vertex, in which the 

 broadly separated ocelli are set, antennae thickened distally, their last 

 five joints more robust than the preceding. Pronotum is narrower than el- 

 ytra, broader than long, anteriorly more narrowing than posteriorly, and 

 the side-margins back of middle feebly obtuse-angulate prominent, posteri- 

 orly slightly outcurved, dorsum convex, v.ith rather fine 8nd dense punc- 

 tation, before the hind corners obliquely, feebly depressed; elytra nearly 

 twice as long as pronotum, punctated like same, slightly convex; abdomen 

 with extremely fine, scattered punctation; middle-tibiae finely spinife- 

 rous. L. 2.5-3 mm. 



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