THE ANT-LOVING BEETLES. 'W> 



627 (1909). TEIMJOMKIJJA DURIA Lee., Bost. Jotirn. Nat. Mist., VI, 1849, IDS. 



Dull brownish-yellow, shilling, very finely pubescent. Head slightly 

 wider than long, finely but distinctly punctate. Auteunte reaching middle 

 of thorax, joints 3 to 8 bead-like, very small, ninth and tenth wider but not 

 longer, eleventh very large, ovate-conical. Thorax as wide as long, widest 

 just in front of middle, disk with a deep transverse sulcus at base, connect- 

 ing a small fovea each side. Elytra each with two basal fovere, the discal 

 lino reaching middle. Length .8 mm. (Fig. ir>2, r. ) 



Putnam Connlv; rare. April 22. 



XIX. MELBA Cas^y. 1S!)7. (A name.) 



Head smaller; last, antenna! joint large, cone-shaped; occiput in 

 <mr species with a median impression; first, dorsal not elongate; 

 second ventral short. ) than the next two. Males with front and 

 middle femora, much swollen. Three spfvics perhaps occur in the 



Slate. 



KIOY TO IN1MA.NA Sl'KClKS OF MKU'.A. 



ii. Discal stri;e of elytra short. 



6. Thorax not punctured, as wide as head. 628. PA UVULA. 



1>1>. Thorax finely and distinctly punctured, wider than head. 



THOKACICA. 



an. Discal strife half the length of each elytron. 629. MAJA. 



62X (1966). MELBA PARVULA Lee., Bost. Jouru. Nat. Hist, VI, 1849, 108. 



Brownish-yellow, shining, finely pubescent. Head one-fifth wider than 

 long, smooth, frontal margin slightly curved; occipital foveae deep. An- 

 tenna- as in T. dnbia, the last joint larger. Thorax subglobose, narrower at 

 base; disk with a deep transverse basal groove which is angulate at middle 

 and unites with a small fovea each side. Elytra strongly convex, the discal 

 groove limited to basal fourth. Length 1 mm. (Fig. 152, (/.) 



Starke and Monroe comities; rare. May 8-May 18. 



M. thoracica Brend.. dull yellow, pubescence fine, abundant, 

 length .9 mm., was described from Illinois and Iowa, and is said to 

 occur on moist, rotten wood, with ants, and to be abundant in June. 



629 (- -). MELBA MAJA Brend., Trans. Anier. Ent. Soc., XIX, 1892, 167. 



Differs from imrriilii in. the longer discal stria of elytra and in having 

 the sutural stria punctured on the outer side. Length 1.1 mm. 



Putnam County; rare. April 17. 



Triinioplccfuft r,l>wlf-ins Brend., yellow, pubescence fine and 

 sparse, length 1.2 mm., was described from Iowa and may occur in 

 Northern Indiana. 



