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rather evenly broad and elongate, with set off side-margins, posteriorly 



tapering; the legs rather short, tibiae somewhat broadened toward tip, not 



spiniferous, tarsi short, their claw-joint as long as the first four joints 



together, first four Joints of fore-tarsi feebly dilated. 



To this genus only 1 species, which lives under bark. 



1. Ph. subtilissima Mannh. 



(Mannh. Brach. 50; Srichs. Ka'f. Mk. Br. I, 612; Jen. Spec. Staph. 845; 

 Kraatz Ins. D. H, 1038; Thorns. Skand. Col. Ill, 114; Muls. et Rey Bre'vip. 

 1878, 198; Sanglb. KBf. M. II, 694). 



A small, narrow and evenly broad species, which in appearance somewhat 

 resembles an Oxypoda of subgenus Eemosoma. 



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Brownish black, feebly glistening, finely gray-haired; tip of abdomen 

 and posterior margins of its joints, often also the elytra brownish-red; 

 antennae, mouth, and legs reddish, more rarely brownish yellow. 



The head (Fig. 192) is narrower than pronotum, with rather large, pro- 

 minent, round eyes, the surface very finely shagreened, not punctated, and 

 without impressions, the first two joints of antennae somewhat thickened, 

 the third fine, shorter than the second, the middle ones rounded and with 

 the next-last gradually thickened distally, so that these (9-1C) become 

 twice as broad as long, distal joint is short oval. Pronotum is proportio- 

 nately large, a little broader than elytra, l£ times as broad as long, with 

 slightly rounded sides, smoothly convex, very finely shagreened, but with 

 indistinct or extremely fine, scattered punctation, sometimes with two, 

 very slight indications of longitudinal impressions at middle; elytra a 



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