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obscure testacea, tenuiter pul>e.scentia. Abdoinen lateribus 

 parallelis, segmentis 2-4 dursalibus basi transversim fortiter 

 impressis; rufo-testaceum, nitidum, sublieve, ciiigulo ante api- 

 cem nigro-fusco, Pedes pallide testacei. 



SallBjnt; funnen jia Gottland af Statsradet af Fahrseus. 



Atlieta canescois: Linearis, nigra, subopaca, tenuissirae 

 fusco-pubescens; prothorace transverso, basi canaliculato; ab- 

 domine toto confertissime punctato; anteuuis articulis 4-10 

 seusim paullo latioribus. 



Mas: segraento 7:o dorsali apice obsolete 4-dentato. 



HomaJota canescens Sharp in Trans. of the Ent. Soc. 

 1869 pag. 239. 



A. sordidulce magnitudine et structura simillima, sed 

 antennis articulis 4-10 seusira paullo latioribus, l():o trans- 

 verso, ultirao breviore distiucta; ab A. arenicola (gerniana 

 Sharp) corpore miuore et angustiore, magis opaco mox dis- 

 cedens, Caput subrotuudum, prothorace vix angustius, ni- 

 grum, subopacum, fronte plauiuscula, medio liueola irapressa, 

 palpis nigio-fuscis. Antennse prothoracis basin superautes, 

 breviter pubescentes, nigi-se; articulo 2:o 3:o breviter obco- 

 nico fere duplo longiore, 4:o sequentibus haud abrupte angu- 

 stiore, subtransverso, 5-10 sensim rainus fortiter latioribus, 

 ultimo breviter ovato, panultirao transverso fere duplo lou- 

 giore. Prothorax trausversus, coleopteris parura angustior, 

 apice quara basi pauUo angustior; lateribus parura rotunda- 

 tis, haud pilosis; disco obsolete punctatus, subopacus, niger 

 minus convexus, basi canalicula al)breviata imp:essa. Elytra 

 apice truncata, prothorace uounihil longiora, lateribus haud 

 pilosis; planiuscula, subopaca, nigra, obsolete punctata. Ab- 

 doraen fere lateribus parallelis, apicem versus parce breviter 



