Til 10 VARIKOATKh ?l I '])-!.( >Vi.\(! BEETLES. 



1303 (- -). HETEKOCKIU s IIUUNNEUS Melsh., Proo. Phil. Acatl. Nat. Sri.. 



II. 1844. 99. 



oblong, moderately convex. Piceous. slightly shining; elytra with the 

 usual three simuuis bands of dull yellow, often broken into spots, some- 

 times scarcely distinct: the front band usually with a dash projected for- 

 ward from the middle: the hind one usually forming two rounded spots 

 near apex but not touching margin; body beneath entirely piceous. Ely- 

 tra more distinctly substriate than in the other species. Length 34 mm. 



Frequent about Hie lakes of northern Indiana; elsewhere taken 

 only in Marion and Lawrence counties. May 11 December 7. 



//. scJui'ai'zi Horn, is known from Pennsylvania, Lake Superior 

 and Texas. (Fig. 256, I).} 



i:;OG (3905). HETEBOCERI-S COLLAKIS Kies., Revis. Linn. Ent., V, 1851, 292. 

 Oblong, moderately convex. Dull sooty brown or piceous. clothed with 

 brownish hair; sides of thorax pale; elytra each with an indistinct spot 

 near scutellum and two sinuous bands, often more or less interrupted and 

 sometimes indistinct, yellow; body beneath piceous. sides and apex of ab- 

 domen yellowish; legs entirely reddish-yellow. Thorax twice as wide as 

 long, sides and base curved, the latter Insinuate. Length 2.5-4 mm. (Fig. 

 255. It and c.) 



Throughout the State; frequent. June 11-August 17. 



Fig. 25fi. ti, H. tris-lis, female; li, H. .<n'hu'iir:i, female; r, H. auromicans; d, H. pus. /Ins. (After Hori!.) 



1307 (3900). HETEROCERUS TRKSTIS Mann., Bull. Mosc., III. 1853, 218. 



Oblong, subdepressed. Piceous, sparsely clothed with short, brownish 

 pubescence; sides of thorax indistinctly paler: elytra with the side margins 

 entirely but narrowly pale, the usual sinuous bands broken into short longi- 

 tudinal lines as follows: an oblique stripe on each side of scutellum. on each 

 side of this one-third from base a short stripe; behind this near middle a 

 pair of oblong spots, and another pair on apical fourth; beneath piceous. 

 the sides of abdomen narrowly pale. Elytra vaguely substriate. epipleura 

 pale. Length 3.5-4 mm. (Fig. 256, a.) 



Lake. Starke and Kosciusko counties: scarce. July 18-An- 

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