762 



FAMILY XXXVII. KI.ATK1M 1 >.K. 



1449 (44H). BLADUS QUADRICOLLIS Say, Trans. Ainer. Phil. Soc., VI, 1s:;i;. 



ISC; ibid II, <!24. 



Elongate-oblong. I'iceous-black, sparsely clothed with yellowish hairs. 

 Second and third joints of antenna- equal, each nearly as long as fourth, 

 the second more robust than third. Thorax transversely quadrate, sides 

 nearly parallel ; disk densely and coarsely punctured ; hind angles nearly 

 rectangular, not extending backward behind the line of base. Elytral stria? 

 punctate; intervals minutely punctured. Length G.5-7 mm. 



Described from Posey County. One specimen taken by Dury 

 near Cincinnati. Not seen by me from the State. 



XXXVIII. NOTHODES Lee, 1861. (Gr., "false + appearance.") 



This genus is represented by a single species which resembles so 

 closely Lini-onins fjrisrus that it can with difficulty be separated. 

 The clypeus is truncate, suddenly deflexed at tip and not margined 

 at middle; prosternum with a short lobe, the sutures feebly exca- 

 vated in front. 



14fiO (4418). NOTHODES DUBITANS Lee., Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc., X, 1S53, 

 433. 



Elongate-oblong, rather robust. Dull sooty- 

 brown or piceous, tinged with bronze; rather dense- 

 ly clothed, especially on head and thorax, with yel- 

 lowish hairs: legs and antenna' paler. Second and 

 third joints of antenna- subequal, together longer 

 than fourth. Thorax nearly as broad as long, 

 strongly convex, scarcely narrower in front than 

 at base, sides feebly rounded ; disk rather densely 

 and finely punctate, with a feebly impressed me- 

 dian line; bind angles short, subacute, but faintly 

 ( arinate. Elytra with sides -parallel to apiral third, 

 thence rounded to apex, stria; with punctures; in- 

 tervals nearly flat, densely puuctulate. Length 1 1 



Fig. 289. X 3i. (Original.) 12., r ) mm. (Eig. 289.) 



Southern half of State ; frequent. May 14-June 20. Taken by 

 sweeping grass and low herbs: also especially on leaves of the 

 greater ragweed. Ambrosia iri/hla L. One specimen was taken from 

 the clutches of a large bumble-bee like fly, Mull<>i>!ii;i *i>.? which 

 had just captured it and settled down for a feast. 



XXXIX. SERIOUS Esch. 1S1>!). (Gr., "silken.") 



Slender, fusiform species having the front convex, not mar- 

 gined; prosternal lobe long; hind coxal plates scarcely narrower on 

 outer end. Sericosomus Steph. is a synonym. 



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