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 with broadly set off, impressed, back of middle feebly rounded sides, and 

 rectangular, acutely incised hind corners, dorsum slightly convex, with 

 very dense and rather robust scabrous punctation, sharply and entirely 

 middle-grooved, scutellum likewise and most often distinctly middle-grooved ; 

 elytra approximately twice as long as pronotum, as densely as, and some- 

 what more robustly scabrously punctated than this; abdomen with very fine 

 and dense, somewhat scabrous punctation. L. 2.5-3 mm. 



In the & the middle and hind femora are thickened, and the hindmost 

 trochanter very strongly developed, middle-tibiae arcuate, hind tibiae 

 on inner side calf-shaped dilated, beneath the calf insarvate ami elon- 

 gated into a curved, robust tip. The sixth ventral abdominal joint is 

 broadly and strongly semicircularly incurvate, the seventh less strongly 

 and broadlv inearvatfe. 



In fungi, under rotten plants, at fermenting tree-sap etc., distrib- 

 uted and not rare in this country. North and Kiddle Europe. 



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 4. M. hemipterus 111. 



(Illig. Schneid. Mag. V, 597; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 645; (Jen. Spec. 

 Staph. 906; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 1031; Ihoms. Skand. Col. Ill, 219; Uuls. 

 et Rey Bre'vip. 1878, 24fc; Janglb. Kaf. M. II, 763. - depressus var. c. 

 Jyllh. Ins. Suec. Ill, 699). 



Easily separated from the preceding species by the color. Rust-red, 

 dull or dully glistening, very finely haired; the head, with exception 

 of mouth-parts, black; antennae toward tip brownish. 



Dorsal side of body is punctated like that of preceding species; pro- 

 notum 2k times as broad as long, with very broadly set off impressed, al- 



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