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The head (see above) is very densely shagreened and rugosely punctated, 

 on each side inside eyes with a flat impression, and in each a fine, oblique 

 groove posteriorly; pronotum twice as broad as long, with smoothly rounded, 

 posteriorly impressed sides and obtuse-angular incised hind corners, pos- 

 teriorly about as broad as elytra, anteriorly narrowing, slightly convex, 

 with rather fine, dense scabrous punctation, in middle-line entirely and 

 sharply grooved; elytra nearly twice as long as pronotum, with dense and 

 rather robust scabrous punctation; abdomen especially finely, rather densely 

 punctated. L. 2.5-3 mm. 



In the «?the hind femora are thickened, hind tibiae slightly curved, 

 beneath middle on inner side feebly lrourvate and haired; sixth ventral 

 abdominal joint broadly, rounded emarginate, the seventh greatly produced. 



Common everywhere in this country in decaying plant-waste, fungi, car- 

 rion ect. , often in great numbers; distributed throughout the greater part 

 of Europe. 



2. M. slnuatocolli s Lac. 



(Boisd. Lacord. Faun. Ent. Paris. I, 493; Erichs. Oen. Spec. Staph. 

 905; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 218; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 1029; Muls. et Rey 

 Brevip. 1878, 243; Sanglb. Kaf. U. II, 762). 



Black or pitch-brown, somewhat greasy glistening, very finely haired; 

 abdominal tip brownish-red, ventral side often reddish-yellow; pronotal 

 sides and elytra often reddish-brown; legs rust-red. 



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Very closely allied to depressus , from which it, next after the dif- 

 ference in color, mainly is separated by, that pronotum is more than twice 



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