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legs brownish, tibise with dusky bands, femora dusky. Beak flat, shorter 

 than head. Thorax convex, wider at base than long, densely and finely 

 punctate, tessellated with dark spots. Elytra broadly oval; striae fine, 

 their punctures fine, close-set. Length 2.5 3.2 mm. 



Southern half of Indiana, frequent. March 31 June 12. 

 Pawpaw Lake, Michigan, Aug. 7. Ft. Lee and Hudson county. 

 New Jersey. Ranges from New England and Ontario to Iowa, 

 south to Florida and Texas. Usually taken by sweeping meadows 

 and low vegetation. Has been reported as breeding in stored 

 corn, peas and cowpeas,* but not generally regarded as of 

 economic importance. Bred from the fungus Cystopus iponifpa- 

 pandurantr, parasitic on dodder, in Ohio; also from stem of wild 

 rye. Ely in us rirr/hiicns L. in Illinois (Webster). Pierce (1907, 

 295) has bred it in abundance from stems of a Composite, Hider- 

 aiitJuis rubiyhiosus T. & G., in Texas, the eggs being laid in the 

 tender lateral stem buds and at the base of the flower heads, the 

 larvae feeding in narrowly separated cells and pupating in cells 

 of brown dust. 



28 (9229). BRACHYTARSUS STICTICUS Boh., Schon., 1833, 172. 



Oblong, rather slender. Brown, thickly clothed with very short, dark 

 brown and grayish-yellow hairs; thorax much varied with sooty brown, 

 which does not extend on the front margin; elytra each with numerous 

 small, rounded and two larger dark spots; antennae pale reddish-brown, last 

 three joints fuscous, legs pale rufous, femora dusky at middle. Head flat, 

 dusky, paler toward apex of beak. Thorax convex, finely and densely punc- 

 tate, the basal ridge extending along the sides for nearly half their length. 

 Elytral stria? very fine, obsoletely punctate. Length 2.5 3 mm. (Fig. 30.) 



Common throughout Indiana, Jan. 6 June 2. Taken by 



sweeping low herbage, sifting woody 

 debris and on flowers of button- 

 bush, Cephalanthus occidentnUs L. ; 

 the January specimen beneath log 

 near border of pond. Staten Island, 

 New York, June. Throughout New 

 Jersey, south of the Piedmont Plain, 

 May July. Sauford and Dunedin, 

 Fla.; April 3 Oct. 31. Ranges from 

 New England and Quebec, Canada, 

 to Iowa, south to Florida. Breeds 

 in the smut of corn and wheat, "Mr. 

 Lea having taken SO individuals 



Fig. 30. 15. (After Forbes.) f rf)m g j x ] loac ] s o f wheat." i $CHJ.) 



The two spots of each elytron are sometimes united by a black 



^Ouaintance, Ent. News, VIII, p. i. 



