TIIK SOFT-BODIKf) PLANT HKKTLKS. 



prolonged between the front cux.r: tarsal claws with a broad, rec- 

 tangular tooth at base. 



1310 (39SG). PTILODACTYLA SERRICOLLIS Say, Journ. Phil. Aeacl. Nat. Sci., 

 Ill, 1823, 180; ibid. II, 119. 



Oblong-oval. Chestnut brown to pic-eons, 

 moderately shining, sparsely pubescent ; legs 

 and antenna- pale. Thorax viewed from above, 

 nearly semicircular, apex slightly prolonged 

 over head, lateral margin acute; basal mar- 

 gin with three small teeth opposite scutellnm ; 

 surface coarsely and rather densely punc- 

 tured. Elytra not wider than thorax, with 

 stria- of rather coarse punctures; intervals 

 sparsely punctulate. scutellar stria long. Tooth 

 of tarsal claw basal, not reaching the mid- 

 dle of claw. Length 4-0 mm. ( Fig. L'<;<;. ) 



Throughout the State, frequent in 

 the northern counties; less so in the 

 southern portion. May 29-July 5. 

 Beaten from vegetation about the borders of lakes and marshes. 



Fig. 266. Male. X 5. (Original.) 



III. EUCINETTS Germ. 1818. 



moving.") 



(Gr.. "well 



Head strongly dellexed. resting on the front coxa 1 , the front pro- 

 longed in a feeble beak; thorax short, narrowed in front; proster- 

 num very short in front of the eox;p, which are long and conical ; 

 hind coxa 1 formed of broad oblique plates which rea.-h the side mar- 

 gin of the body and cover the greater part of the first ventral seg- 

 ment ; tarsal claws small, simple. The following species may occur 

 within the State : 



KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OF El'CIXETI S. 



u. Elytra punctured; hind tibia? with two spurs. 

 1>. Punctures rather coai>e; body ovate, convex. 

 (.-. Elytra substriate near the tip; color pireous. 

 cr. Elytra without stria 1 except the sutural ; color 



low. 

 Till. Punctures dense and rather fine; elytra with sutur; 



brownish or picrous. 

 (/r/. Elytra not punctate but with fine transverse wrinkles or 



'/. Hind tibi;e with two spurs; nearly black. 

 ilil. Hind tibia 1 with one long spur. 



c. Tips of elytra reddish; striga- very close. Kill'. 



ec. Tips not reddish; strigo? much farther apart, surface 



OVIEOKM1S. 



browiiish-yel- 



TESTACEUS. 



il stria only ; 



PUNlTULATl S. 



strigae. 



Kill. MURK). 

 TERMINALIS. 



more shining. 



STIiHIOSl S. 



