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FAMILY II.- CAEABID^E. 



188 (731). BADISTER NOTATLS Haiti.. Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., I, 299. 



Elongate-oval, slender. Head and thorax black, shining ; color other- 

 wise as given in key. Thorax obcordate ; hind angles obtuse ; basal impres- 

 sions deep, linear; median impressed line entire, deep. Length 4-4.5 mm. 



Lake, Marion. Crawford and Posey counties; rare. May 5-No- 

 vember 8. 



18<j *i732). BADISTER PULCHELLCS Lee., Ann. Lye. 

 Nat. Hist., IV, 1848, 418. 



Elongate-oval. Head black, antennae dusky, first 

 joint yellow. The two black spots on each elytron 

 are sometimes connected by a broad stripe. Thorax 

 obcordate, the basal impressions broad and shallow. 

 Lengrh 5.5-6.5 mm. (Fig. 70a. ) 



Lake, Kosciusko and Vigo counties ; scarce. Oc- 

 curs beneath logs and bark along the margins of 

 marshes and lakes. Hibernates as imago. Jan- 

 Fig, voa. (Original.) uary 6-October 29. 



1!H (734 I. BADISTER MACTLATUS Lee.. Trans. Arner. Phil. Soc., X, 387. 



Elongate-oval. Color as given in key. Thorax obcordate with a deep. 

 transverse line between the basal irnpivssinns, the latter prominent: nie- 

 ili;,u impressed lino entire, deep. Length <i mm. 



One specimen from Vigo County. Found beneath log in sandy 

 upland woods. October 17. Known before only from Pennsylvania. 



B. obtnsus Lee., is a boreal species which may yet be found in 

 northern Indiana. B. flavipes-'Ltec., is recorded from Cincinnati. 



I'.H (- 



-). BADISTER LATICEPS sp. nov. 



Elongate-oval. Piceons, shining; antennae and legs yellow, the apical 

 hall' of former gradually dusky; narrow margin of elytra and epipleura 

 dull yellow. Head as broad as thorax, faintly alutaceous; eyes prominent. 

 Thorax slightly broader than long, narrowed from in front of middle to 

 !>asr: margins narrowly reflexed. scarcely more so near hind angles, which 

 nr- obtuse; surface finely alutaceous, basal impression deep, median line 

 entire. Elytral stria 3 well impressed on disk, more shallow on sides; in- 

 tervals subconvex. Length ("' mm. 



Vigo. Knox. Clark and Perry counties; scarce. April 15-Sep- 

 tember 27. Resembles micans closely and confused in my collec- 

 lion with that species until the type was examined at Cambridge. 

 In addition to differences mentioned in key the thorax in laticeps 

 is less transverse nnd has the brsal impressions deeper and better 

 defined. From fcrnmiiK us. a Californian species, to which it is 

 also closely allied, it differs by the less transverse thorax and the 

 pale antenna*. 



