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 bustly and densely punctated, often covering the abdomen nearly to the 

 tip. L. 2.5 mm. Fig. 188. Anthobium minutum Fabr. n . 



In the & the elytra are posteriorly rounded off and ticiae at base 

 feebly curved; in the O the elytra are posteriorly obliquely rounded off, 

 and the sutural corners rather acutely elongate. 



Distributed throughout Europe. In Denmark it is not common everywhere; 



most frequent in our wooded regions on flowering bushes and small plants. 



- The larva is found numerously in molehills, and reared by Hr. Rosenberg 



(2. 5. 1895) 



3. A. torquatum Marsh. 



(Marsh. Ent. Brit. I, 127; Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 751. - scutellare Erichs. 

 Jen. Spec. Staph. 895; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 1016; Rey Brevip. 1880, 329). 



Among our yellow colored species recognized by black abdomen of both 

 sexes. In, form most like minutum . 



Reddish or brownish yellow, feebly glistening, especially finely, and 

 short haired; elytra most often lighter than head and pronotum; neck, scu- 

 tellum, metathorax and abdomen black, or the former darkly brown; antennae 

 toward the tip brownish. 



Head and pronotum with very fine and rather isolated punctation, the 

 surface very finely shagreened, foveae of forehead before ocelli small, 

 but distinct, those by the fore-margin nearly obsolete, antennae thickened 

 distally; pronotum narrower than elytra, \\ times as broad as long, feebly 

 narrowing posteriorly, with smoothly rounded sides, slightly convex, before 

 hind corners narrowly impressed, in middle-line sometimes slightly grooved; 

 elytra more than twice as long as pronotum, with rather robust and dense, 



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