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FAMILY IT. CABABTDJE. 



XXXVIII. GALERITA Fab. 1801. (L., "a helmet.") 



Pubescent beetles of medium size and graceful form, having the 

 head and elytra black or bluish-black, the thorax cordiform, red- 

 dish-brown. Head elongate-oval, strongly constricted behind; neck 

 slender; first joint of antennre elongate. Elytra oval, broadly 

 obliquely truncate behind, finely striate. They occur beneath 

 cover, along fence rows and in open woodlands and are often at- 

 tracted in great numbers by electric lights. Dr. Forbes dissected 

 17 specimens of G. jamts and found that 88 per cent of their food 

 consisted of cankerworms and other injurious forms, the canker- 

 worms alone making up 52 per cent, A synoptic table of the genus 

 is given by 



1 ,<! I c.B\\\\. Brook. Ent. Soc., II, 1870, 61. 



Five species of the genus are known from the United States, 

 two of which occur in Indiana. 



KEY TO INDIANA SL'liC'IKS OF GALERITA. 



a. Head behind the eyes strongly rounded; pubescence of elytra uniform. 



obliquely decumbent. 242. JAN is. 



int. Sides of head longer behind, oblique and less rounded; pubescence of 



elytra erect near the soutelluni. 243. DICOI.OIJ. 



I'll' (sr.l ). GALERITA JANUS Fab., Syst. Eleut.. I. 1801. 36; Say. II. 44U. 



Elongate-oval. Black, densely clothed with short hairs; legs, palpi, 

 thorax and base of antennae reddish-brown. Thorax slightly longer than 

 wide, the margin reflexed -at hind angles, which are rectangular. Elytra 1 

 stria* fine, not punctured; intervals flat, finely, transversely rugose. Length 

 17-22 mm. 



Southern half of State ; frequent. April 21-August 14. 



*243 (853). GALERITA BICOLOR Drury. Ins.. I. 1770. !>4. 



Very similar to the preceding. Distinguished by the char- 

 acters given in key and by its usually smaller size and 

 sin. Hither elytra. The latter are more often blue-black than 

 black. Length 17-21 mm. (Fig. si', i 



Throughout the State: common. -January 1 -Octo- 

 ber 12. A pair were found mating on May 23. 



Zuphiunt Him >-ic*ni)i)n Dej. has been taken by Dury 

 near Cincinnati, ft is a small, slender brown form, 

 living under H;|| stones and runs very rapidly when 

 uncovered. 



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