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four known specimens have been taken in and around Co- 

 penhagen in timberyards where large quantities of Swedish 

 and Norwegian (?) birch is stored. 

 The type is in my collection. 



Elater (Ampedus) Hjorti n. sp. 



Elongate, parallel. Head, thorax and abdomen black, 

 elytra yellowish brown. Head strongly and thickly punctured) 

 covered with black hair; antennæ with third joint narrow' 

 very little longer than second, in male, short and rounded, of 

 about the same length as second, in female. Elytra with 

 dark brown hair, striæ strongly punctured throughout, inter- 

 stices finely punctured, distinctly shiny. Femora and tibiæ 

 black, tarsi clear yellow brown. Length 9 — 10 mm. 



This species, although forming a distinct group by itself 

 on account of the formation of the third joint of the antennæ, 

 is comparatively closely allied to E. pomonæ Herbst [elongatulus 

 Schiödte's catalogue) but is on an average considerably 

 smaller and of a brighter and clearer yellow brown colour, 

 and has the elytra distinctly more parallelsided, and cannot, 

 on account of the colour of the elytra, easily be confounded 

 with any other of the North-European species. 



Apparently confined to oak, in the rotten wood of which 

 I have found it in some considerable numbers, and on 

 hawthorn bloom in the vicinity, at Jægerspris, Sjælland. It 

 is also in various other collections from Bognæs, Vinstrup, 

 Fredensborg, Dyrehaven (Fortunen). It will no doubt be 

 found to occur in many other localities where old oaks are, 

 as the above list of localities show that, as at present known, 

 the species is spread over mid Sjælland. 



The type is in my collection. 



It is interesting to note that there are specimens of 

 both these two species in the Zoological Museum collection 

 at Copenhagen that where separated out by the late con- 

 servator Loven dal, E. aster marked Copenhagen, timber- 

 yards, and E. Hjorti Fortunen. 



