THE ITANDSOMK FUNGUS BEETLES. 539 



*1029 (3187). MYCETINA PEBPULCHRA Newm., Ent. Mag., V, 183S, 390. 



Oblong. Piceous-black, shining ; thorax reddish-yellow, sometimes with 

 a blackish discoidal stripe; elytra each with two reddish-yellow spots, the 

 larger subhunieral, the other subapical. Male with front and hind tibiai 

 angulate within. Length 4 nun. 



Steuben, Ilaneeck, Yig> and ( Y;i\\ Toi-d ((unities; scarce. May 

 1 7-Deoember 3. 



IX. STENOTARSUS Perty. 1831. (Gr., "narrow + tarsus.") 



One species, listed as Mycetina testae ea Zieg., but evidently be- 

 longing to this genus, has been taken in the State, while another may 

 occur. 



KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OF STENOTARSUS. 



a. Prosternum spoon-shaped and prolonged over the mesosteruum ; elytra 



wholly dull yellow. 1030. TESTACEUS. 



a a. Prosternum dilated, not spoon-shaped, not prolonged over the niesoster- 



nurn ; disk of elytra usually black. HISPIDUS. 



*1030 (3189). STENOTARSUS TESTACEUS Ziegl., Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 



II, 1845, 272. 



Elongate-oblong. Reddish-yellow, shining, sparsely pubescent with pros- 

 trate yellow hairs; head and sides of thorax often paler; club of antenna? 

 piceous. Thorax snbquadrate, widest before the middle ; hind angles promi- 

 nent, somewhat prolonged and excurved ; disk, as well as that of elytra, 

 finely and sparsely punctate. Length 3.5^4 aim. 



Starke, Vigo, Posey and Crawford counties; scarce, except lo- 

 cally. March 9-December 11. Occurs beneath logs in upland 

 sandy woods. In such a locality I found it on a number of oceasions 

 in Vigo County, always beneath the same log and nowhere else. 

 When I first took it the log was so large that I had to use great exer- 

 tion to turn it part way over. Returning after ten years' absence 

 I found the same log, reduced to a chunk, easily overturned by one 

 hand, and beneath it I took twenty or more of the beetles. 



S. hispid us Ilcrbst.. length 4-4.5 mm., is recorded from the 

 middle and southern States and has been taken near Cincinnati. 



Family XVIII. EROTYLID.E. 

 THE PLEASING FUNGUS BEETLES. 



A family of moderate extent, comprising, for the most part, 

 beetles elongate or oval in form, and of medium or small size. Many 

 of them are very prettily bicolored. possessing a red thorax, with 

 black or black and red elytra, or the reverse. A number, however, 



