THE LEAP BEETLES. 



1183 



2184 (6936). (EDIONYCHIS FIMBRIATA Forst., Nov. Sp. Ins., I, 1771, 25. 



Oblong-oval, moderately convex, feebly shining. Dull reddish-yellow ; 

 thorax with five piceous spots, usually more or less confluent ; elytra with 

 only a narrow sutural line black, or with three piceous stripes, with inter- 

 grades ; femora and under surface, except the metasternum, reddish- yellow ; 

 antenna?, tibire and tarsi piceous. Thorax more than twice as wide as long, 

 feebly narrowed to front, margins narrow, surface finely alutaceous, rather 

 coarsely and sparsely punctate. Elytra scarcely wider than thorax, surface 

 closely punctate, more finely at apex. Length 5-7.5 mm. (Fig. 517, .) 



Lake and Dubois counties; rare. May 13-May 21. Taken by 

 sweeping herbage. 



Fig. 517. a, (Edionychis timbriata; b, 0. miniata; c and d, 0. quercata and variety. (After Horn.) 



0. peiaurista Fabr., length 5.5-8.5 mm., ranges from North Car- 

 olina to Texas and has been recorded from Cincinnati. 



*2185 (G939). (EDIONYCHIS MINIATA Fabr., Syst. Eleut., I, 1801, 495. 



Oval, slightly oblong, convex, feebly shining. Reddish-brown beneath, 

 dull yellow above; thorax with a transverse brownish spot; elytra with a 

 sutural and each with a median discal stripe blackish ; antennae, except the 

 base, front and middle tibiae, and all the tarsi, piceous. Thorax three times 

 as wide as long, sides curved and narrowed to the front ; disk sparsely and 

 finely punctate. Elytra variably, usually finely and rather closely, punc- 

 tate. Length 5-6.5 mm. (Fig. 517. /). ) 



Throughout the State; frequent. February 14 October 1. Hi- 

 bernates beneath rubbish in sandy localities. Taken in May by 

 sweeping. 



21SG (6941). CEDIONYCHIS THYAMOIDES Crotch, Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 



1873, 63. 



Oval, subdepressed, moderately shining. Above pale yellow; elytra with 

 a broad, oval, common spot, black, tinged with greenish; under surface and 

 legs reddish-yellow; head yellow, sparsely punctate. Antennre longer than 

 half the body, piceous. three or four basal joints paler. Thorax twice as 

 wide as long, distinctly broader at base than apex, margins broadly flat- 

 tened; disk finely alutaceous, sparsely and indistinctly punctate. Elytra 



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