less evidently vittate or with the vittae suffused into a broad dorsal cloud, or 

 with the entire surface brownish piceous; beneath black. Head finely punctate; 

 prothorax unevenly punctured, finely so in front, with numerous coarser 

 punctures in the basal region; elytra in the male with fine and much coarser 

 punctures conspicuously intermixed with the usual discal lines of coarse 

 punctures regular and impressed in basal half, becoming obsolete at or behind 

 the middle. In the female the elytra are generally more densely punctate and 

 dull, the intermixed fine punctures less evident and the impressed discal lines 

 feeble or wanting; some females, however, have the elytra shining and 

 punctate as in the male. Beneath moderately coarsely punctate, alutaceous, 

 opaque in the dull females, more shining in the males. Tarsi rather broad in 

 both sexes, but evidently wider in the male, the basal joint slightly narrower 

 than the second, the anterior claw of the front tarsus (c?) thicker and more 

 strongly curved, apparently shorter than its fellow when viewed from the 

 front. Length 4.5 to 5.4 mm.; width 2.3 to 2.7 mm. 



A very widely dispersed species, occurring from New England to 

 Alaska in this country, as well as in Siberia, Asia Minor and Northern 

 Europe. 



There is a great deal of variation in form, color, markings and 

 sculpture as might be expected in a species of circum-terrestrial dis- 

 persion. 



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