764 FAMILY XXXVII. ELATERID^fi. 



y. Thorax red with a black stripe on disk. 



1455. SIGNATICOLT.IS. 



////. Thorax pieeous with hind angles dull yellow; tips of elytra 

 dull yellow. COPEI. 



(/(/. Colur above uniform dull brown or pieeous. 



//. Form elongate, slender, siibcylindrical ; elytra with sides par- 

 allel to apieal fourth, Iheiice rounded to apex; length 11- 

 11!. 5 mm. 145G. CYLJNDRIFORM is. 



////. Form shorter, more robust; elytra distinctly attenuate behind 

 the middle; length 1MO mm. 1457. DIVARICATTS. 



cc. Third joint of antenna? cylindrical, distinctly narrower than fourth ; 



form robust. 



/. Color black, shining; length 15-23 mm. 1458. /ETHIOPS. 



ii. Color not black; length 8-12 nun. 



j. Elytra dull yellow with two undulated darker bands; form 

 subdepressed. 1459. IIIEROGLYPIIKTS. 



./'./. Uniform bronzed picouus; form much swollen. 



14(>0. 1NFLATUS. 



ll>. Antenme not distinctly serrate; joints 3 to 10 generally siibcylin- 

 drical. 



/,-. Form elongate, slender; thorax distinctly longer than wide. 

 /. Elytra uniform dull reddish-brown; length 15 or more mm. 



1401. PYRRIIOS. 



//. Elytra with alternate narrow stripes of brown and dull yellow; 



length 8-10.5 mm. 1462. BIVITTATITS. 



7,7,'. Form oblong, rather robust; thorax as wide as long; color dark 



chestnut brown. 14G3. ROTUNDICOIXIS. 



mi. Joint three of antenna? distinctly shorter and more narrow than joint 



four. 

 ///. Elongate, parallel; uniform chestnut brown, shining. 



14C4. SULCICOI.TJS. 

 ;/////. Oblong, dilated behind the middle. 



n. Elytra dull yellow, each with a single dusky hooked line on apical 



half. 1405. HAM ATI'S. 



mi. Elytra uniform cupreous or brownish-bronzed. SPI.ENDKXS. 



14.":; (44127). CORYMBITES VERNALIS Ileutz.. Joum. 1'liil. Ac.ifl. Nat. Sci., V, 

 1827, 374. 



Elongate-oblong. Color given in key Antenna? 

 strongly serrate, snbpectinate in male, third joint, 

 as long as fourth, its outer angle not as much pro- 

 duced. Thorax slightly longer than wide, sides 

 feebly curved, disk densely and tiuely punctate, a 

 basal median impressed line; hind angles short, 

 divergent, faintly carinate. Elytra strongly at- 

 tenuate on apical third, stria? punctate; intervals 

 Mat. minutely punctulate. Length 8-10.5 mm. (Fig. 

 290.) 



Posey County ; frequent in spring on a 

 ^ perpendicular lu i ss bank one-half mile south 

 c 4. (Original.) _ f New Harniony> April 2 2-April 26. Taken 



