FAMILY X. I'SKLA 



B. schuiiinii Aube, piceous-black, length 2.1 nun., is known from 

 Pennsylvania and Illinois. 



616 ( -). BATRISODES CASEYI Dury Mss. 



Uniform reddish or chestnut-brown, sparsely clothed with stiff, sub- 

 erect yellowish hairs. Head large, as wide as thorax ; vertex strongly 

 swollen, not carinate; fove:e of occiput very small. Antenna? short, stout, 

 reaching base of thorax, joints 2 to 10 wider than long, 11 oblong-oval, 

 nearly as long as the three preceding. Thorax as wide as long, median 

 sulcus deep, abbreviated in front, basal fovese round, deep. Elytra smooth, 

 convex, humeri not prominent. Length 2.5 mm. 



Posey County; rare. April 26. Taken from beneath chunk in 

 open sandy woods. Dury has three or four from Kentucky opposite 

 Cincinnati. 



617 (1902). BATRISOUES RIPARIUS Say, Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., IV. 



1824, 98; ibid. II, 235. 



Reddish-brown, sparsely pubescent Head slightly wider than long, its 

 margin broad, flat, produced in front ; the fovese small, deep, not pubescent. 

 Antennae of male half the length of body, joints 2 to 8 gradually smaller 

 and rounded; ninth much larger, transverse, toothed on outer side; tenth 

 still larger, globose; eleventh not as thick, more than twice as long, with a 

 large tooth inside the base; in female the joints are regular, the last one 

 not as long as the two preceding, acute-ovate. Thorax slightly longer than 

 broad, sparsely punctate, the basal fovea small, distinct. Elytra very con- 

 vex, strongly punctured; humeri blunt or rounded. Length 1.4-1.6 mm. 



Posey County; rare. April 18- April 22. 



B. scabriceps Lee., piceous. leg's and antenna* paler, is said to 

 occur from Pennsylvania to Illinois and Iowa. B. lineaticolUs 

 Aube and B. fronlalix Lee., have been recorded from Cincinnati. 

 B. s-hnjtlfj- Lee. is a boreal species which has been taken in northern 

 Illinois. 



618 (190.3). BATRISODES GLOBOSTS Lee., Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, VI, 184!), 



100. 



Reddish-brown, shining, sparsely and finely pubescent. Head with ver- 

 tex roof-shaped, the crest carinate; fove;e small, deep, round, not pubes- 

 cent; margin broad, Mat. densely punctate. Antennae half as long as body, 

 second joint obconical. three to eight globular and of same width as sec- 

 ond; ninth thicker, wider than long; tenth in male globular, four times 

 as thick as ninth; eleventh narrower than tenth, ovate, acute, obliquely 

 impressed from middle mi outer side. Thorax slightly wider than long. 

 median sulcus deep, ending near base in a deep fovea from which a trans- 

 verse groove curves to fovetv on sides. Elytra indistinctly punctiilate. one- 

 half longer than thorax, each with three small, rounded fovea' at base; 

 discal lines short, shallow: humeri tuberculate. Legs long, thighs clavalc. 

 Length l.S mm. (Fig. 151, c.) 



