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To this genus only 1 northern and middle European species, which also 



is found in this country. 



1. P. lurlda Gyllh. 



(Syllh. Ins. Suec III, 701; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 960; Thorns. Skand. Col. 

 Ill, 199; Rey BreVip. 1880, 271; Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 744. - alplna Zett. 

 Ins. Lapp. 52). 



Recognizeable by the above denoted characters and by the coarse punc- 

 tation of the thorax. 



Black, pitch-black or darkly reddish-brown, somewhat glistening, espe- 

 cially finely and sparsely haired; antennae, mouth and legs reddish-yellow. 



The head (see above) with scattered or simple and coarse punctation; 

 pronotum slightly cordate, across the middle l£ times as broad as long, 

 and with anteriorly slightly rounded, back of middle feebly outcurved sides, 

 convex, coarsely and densely punctated, posteriorly as a rule with smooth 

 middle-line; elytra 1£ times as long as pronotum, coarsely and densely, 

 here and there somewhat row-formed punctated; abdomen with indistinct, 

 or extremely fine, scattered punctation. L. 2.5-3 mm. 



In the 6^the fourth ventral abdominal joint at middle of posterior mar- 

 gin with a robust tooth, the fifth and sixth on each side of the tapering 

 middle very flatly incurvate, the seventh at middle-line flatly grooved. 



(Fig. 187). Fig. 187. Last four ventral abdominal joints in 



Pycno^lypta lurida ^yllh.'S' 1 . (accd. to Muls.) 



In this country very local, and heretofore only found in the vicinity 

 around, and between Aalborg and Panders, on marsh and meadow ground, early 

 in the spring in alluvium and between reeds under remnants of plants, some- 

 numerous (Hasris Kaer. Jravlev Meadows). The assertion by ian -lbauer et al. 



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