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antennis gracilibus, elongatu, nigro-piceis ; pedihus nigro- 



fuscis, tibiis ferrugineis, tarsis festaceis; capite impresso; 



thorace suhquadrato, postice suhangustato, leviter canalicu- 



lato. Long. If lin. 

 Aleochara flavitarsis, Sahlherg, Ins. Fenn., i., 349. — Aleo- 



chara ruficrus, Kirhyy Steph. Illust., Mand., v., iii? 

 Of the habit of T. frontalis, sub-depressed, black, head, thorax, 

 and elytra of the dull black colour of T. foveola, abdomen of a 

 deeper black, still more shining. Antennae longer tKan the head 

 and thorax, sub-filiform, thin, first joint long, 3rd joint slightly 

 thinner, and rather longer than the 2nd, 4th equal to the 7th, 

 5th and 6th slightly longer than these and equal, 8 — 10 obconic, 

 slightly shorter and scarcely thicker, all the joints elongate, with 

 their apices widest, and their bases finely narrowed, the apical 

 one elongate ovate, not quite equal to the 9th and 10th taken 

 together, gradually acuminate; fusco-piceous, tips of the two 

 basal joints scarcely paler, mouth and palpi nigro-fuscous. Head 

 not so broad as the hinder part of the thorax, orbiculate, very 

 thickly and finely punctulate, slightly impressed or flattened 

 between the eyes, with a deepish small round fovea on the front. 

 Thorax sub-quadrate, always narrower than the elytra, broadest 

 anteriorly, sides dilated a little behind the anterior angles, sub- 

 deflexed, rounded before the middle, and the anterior angles 

 rounded, considerably narrowed from behind the middle, base and 

 apex truncate, posterior angles obtuse ; very thickly and finely 

 punctulate, with short indistinct pubescence, sub-depressed above, 

 with a slender obsolete central channel ending in a shallow fovea 

 before the scutellum. Scutellum small, thickly punctured. 

 Elytra broader and longer than the thorax, its apex wider, emar- 

 ginate at the apex of the suture, rather flattened, somewhat deeply 

 depressed at the suture behind the scutellum, with a short griseous 

 pubescence, very minutely and thickly punctulate. Abdomen 

 broadish, behind the elytra of the length of the body, deeper 

 black, shining, the first four joints thickly and finely punctulate, 

 5th and 6th shining, the former much depressed transversely 

 across the base, and slightly at the sides, with a few minute granu- 

 lations, 6th finely punctured, with a very obsolete longitudinal 



