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1. Ph. clypeatum Mull. 



(Mull. Serm. Mag. IV, 204; Erichs. Kaf. Mk. Br. I, 646; 3en. Spec. 

 Staph. 907; Kraatz Ins. D. II, 1033; Muls. et Rey Brevip. 1878, 256; CJanglb. 

 KaT. M. II, 764). 



In connection with the denoted generic characters recognizeable by the 

 color. 



Brownish- or reddish-yellow, dull, very finely haired; head and pronotum 

 at middle often, occasionally also the elytra darker; antennae pitch-brown 

 or pitch-black, with exception of the most often yellow distal joint. 



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The body (Fig. 191) is C>f> even breadth, oblong, feebly convex; the 

 head broad, yet a little narrower than pronotum, with very dense and coarse 

 scabrous punctation, antennae rather slender, feebly thickened distally, 

 with a larger, ovate distal joint; pronotum (see above) twice as broad as 

 long, anteriorly feebly narrowing, with almost rectangular fore-corners, 

 indistinctly notched side-margins and very flatly, angularly incised hind 

 corners, dorsum within the broadly set off, flat side-margins rather con- 

 vex, with coarse and dense rugose punctation, in middle-line feebly grooved. 

 The elytra are more than twice as long as pronotum, smoothly convex, coarse- 

 ly and densely punctated; andomen with rather dense and fine scabrous punc- 

 tation. L. 2.5-3 mm. 



In the C? the femora of middle and hind legs are somewhat thickened, and 

 the tibiae curved; the sixth ventral abdominal joint is strongly 4n<iurv>4te 

 and in the middle-line feebly grooved. 



Distributed in Middle Europe. In Denmark rare, and singly in forest 



regions under bark of stubs, at tree-sap, in fungi and under mouldy leaves. 



In Sweden and Norway it is heretofore not found. 



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