THE DEATH-WATCH AND DRUG STOKE BEETLKS. 873 



long as wide, sides parallel, broadly sinuate at middle ; hind angles nearly 

 rectangular, sharply denned; disk evenly convex, with an impressed line at 

 middle and a transverse impression each side on basal third. Elytra with 

 regular rows of close-set, rather deep, quadrate punctures; intervals slightly 

 convex, not much wider than the punctures. Length 5-G.2 nun. 



Starke, Putnam, Vigo and Lawrence counties; scarce. June 

 12-October 12. Occurs beneath bark and on old brandies of wild 

 cherry and oak. 



Tribe IV. XYLETININI. 



Usually elongate-oval species having the contractile power fairly 

 well developed; thorax excavated beneath for the head, which is 

 strongly bent under in repose, and more or less impressed or exca- 

 vated on the under side, the antenna curving into the cavities and 

 resting against the front coxa3. The antenna 3 are 11-jointed and 

 variable in form. Two of the six genera comprising the tribe are 

 represented in Indiana, while another may occur. 



KEY TO INDIANA GENERA OF XYLETININI. 



(/. Elytra striate; head merely broadly impressed beneath in front, not dis- 

 tinctly excavated for the reception of the antenna:', the latter strongly 

 serrate, the three outer joints not elongate; metasternum not sloping 

 downward in front. X. XYLETINUS. 



(i/i. Elytra not striate; head deeply excavated beneath for the antenna?. 



/>. Antenna? serrate, the outer joints not elongate ; metasternum strongly 

 sloping downward in front. XI. LASIODERMA. 



W). Antenna? not serrate, joints 9-11 elongate; metasternum more grad- 

 ually sloping downward. MEGORAMA. 



X. XYLETINUS Lat. 1829. (Gr., "wood + destroy.") 



Oval to oblong species, having the thorax wider than long, the 

 hind angles broadly rounded and undefined, the front angles nearly 

 rectangular and scarcely rounded; elytra striate, the outer and 

 inner stria 1 uniting on apical third; ventral segments nearly equal, 

 1he first, second and fifth somewhat longer than the third and 

 fourth. Three of the nine known species have been la ken in In- 

 diana. 



KEY TO I.MHA.XA S['K( IKS OK XYI.KTIM'S. 



(i. Form cylindrical; eyes, especially (hose of male, larger and more con- 

 vex; width of front ahoiil twice as wide as that of eye when viewed 

 from the t'roiil ; color brown or reddish-brown. 



It. Last joint of maxillary palpus elongate, feebly triangular; thorax 

 more parallel, the side margins very narrow and not at all rettexed. 



1GOO. PELTATUS. 



