48 FAMILY II. t'AHABID.K. 



Common throughout the State in meadows, 

 ( ultivated fields, gardens, etc. It is called the 

 "fiery hunter,'"' as it is often seen in daytime on 

 the search for cutworms and other juicy larvae. 

 It is also known to feed upon the young of the 

 Colorado potato beetle, The grubs are called 

 "cutworm lions," as they capture and destroy 

 many of those injurious worms. May 2-July 20. 



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Fig. 36. 



Tribe IV. ELAPIIKINI. 



Beetles of small or medium si/e. blackish or bronze in color, 

 having the eyes more or less prominent, antenna 1 rarely longer 

 than head and thorax, with three basal joints glabrous; labrum 

 truncate; mandibles stout, concave and with one bristle-bearing 

 puncture on the outer side. Body not pedunculate, scutellum dis- 

 tinct. Elytra not or feebly margined at base. Prosternum not 

 prolonged behind the cox-.i-. the coxa! cavities closed. The tribe is 

 composed of three genera, two of which are represented in Indiana. 



KKY TO INDIANA (iKNKRA OF ELAPHRINI. 



it. Elytra not striate. but with prominent impressions or pits; eyes promi- 

 nent; tooth of mentum large, emarginate. V. ELAPHRUS. 

 (HI. Elytra striate. with small pits beetween the strhe; eyes not prominent: 

 tooth of mentum short, bind at tip. VI. BLETHISA. 



V. ELAPHRUS Fab. 1775. (Gr.. "light in moving;" i. e., swift.) 



Bronzed and metallic beetles, similar in form but much smaller 

 than these of the genus ('icintlcla. They may be found on sunny 

 days running on sand bars and mud fiats near streams and lakes, 

 and in cloudy weather hiding under plants and rubbish. Head, in 

 our species, wider than thorax, the latter without marginal bristle- 

 bearing puncture. Elytra with rows of large, shallow, orbicular 

 impressions. Eleven species are known from the United States, 

 five of which have been taken in Indiana. For synoptic tallies of 

 both this genus and the next, sec: 



Crotch Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc., V, 1876, 246. 



rVo/r//. Bull. Brook. Entom. Soc., I, 1878. 6-7. 



KKY TO INDIANA SPKCIKS OF ELAPHRIS. 



</. Thorax sparsely punctate; front tarsi of males with four joints di- 

 lated. 

 1>. Elytra sn th. not punctured. 



