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 punctated; abdomen with scattered and especially fine punctation; the 

 tibiae, especially the middle ones, distinctly spiniferous. L. 3 mm. 



In the O the antennae are more slender, fore-tarsi more strongly dilat- 

 ed, fore and middle-femora thicker, and middle-tibiae more distinctly cur- 

 ved than in the O . 



Distributed in Middle Europe. In this country very rare and local; here- 

 tofore found only in the vicinity of P.oskilde (Boserup, Lejre) in the flow- 

 ers of cowslip ( Primula' elatior ) and hawthorn, occasionally very numerous. 

 2. Subgenus Anthobium s. str. 

 2. A. minutum Fabr. 



(Fabr. Ent. Syst. I, 254; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 638; Jen. Spec. Staph. 

 896; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 1010; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 202; Rey Bre'vip. 1880, 

 305; danglb. Keif. M. II, 749. - ranonculi Sravh. Micr. 118). 



Among the following species easily identified by the color. 



Black, somewhat glistening; abdomen sparsely haired; elytra, sometimes 

 also pronotal side-margins pitch-brown, more rarely reddish-brown; anten- 

 nal base, mouth and legs reddish-yellow. 



Body short and rather flat, posteriorly broadened (Fig. 188); head with 

 very fine and scattered punctation, and together with the broader pronotum 

 very densely shagreened in surface, foveae of forehead before ocelli very 

 small, and the impressions at fore-margin feeble, antennae thickened dis- 

 tally; pronotum narrower than elytra, l£ times as broad as long , posterior- 

 ly hardly narrowing, with feebly rounded sides, slightly convex, finely and 

 densely punctated, side-margins above hind corners slightly impressed; el- 

 ytra more than twice as long as pronotum, posteriorly broadened, rather ro- 



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