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 before these flatly, and narrowly impressed at sides, often also with 

 two feebly suggested longitudinal impressions on the dorsum. Elytra more 

 than twice as long as pronotum , feebly broadened posteriorly, the dorsum 

 till somewhat before tip with finely striped and rowed punctation, else- 

 where all over rugosely shagreened, and the punctures mutually connected 

 by lines; abdomen not punctated. L. 2 mm. 



In the O the first four joints of fore-tarsi dilated; the sixth ventral 

 abdominal joint at base with two feeble, short longitudinal folds. 



""idely distributed in Middle and North Europe; in this country rare; 



in compost, under rotting plant waste and at fungi (Odense; several places 



in Lolland-Fal6ter) . 



2. A. sulcatula Staph. 



(Steph. 111. Erit. V, 336; Rey Ere'vip. 1880, 265; 3anglb. Ka'f. U. II, 

 744. - striata Lac. Faun. Ent. Paris. I, 475). 



Much like striata , from which it however can be separated by the fol- 

 lowing details: 



Antennal base and the legs are reddish-yellow; head and pronotum are 

 finely punctated, but is more distinctly aciculated between the punctures, 

 the foveae of forehead before the ocelli of vertex smaller and shorter; pro- 

 notum larger, nearly twice as broad as long, more convex, without impres- 

 sions before the rounded off hind corners, sometimes very feebly and fine- 

 ly grooved in middle-line; elytra twice as long as pronotum, almost paral- 

 lel, with striped and rowed punctation and shagreened about same as in the 

 preceding species. As a rule it is a little larger. L. 2.5 mm. 



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