THE LEAF BEETLES. 1207 



*2231 (G920). HYPOLAMPSIS PILOSA Illig., Mag. fur Insect., VI, 1807, 105. 



Oblong-oval, convex. Dull brownish-yellow to piceous, opaque; surface 

 with prostrate gray and brown pubescence and sparse erect hairs; antenna' 

 reddish or brownish-yellow, the outer five joints darker. Thorax quadrate, 

 very little wider than long, sides nearly straight ; disk convex, coarsely and 

 closely punctate and with two feeble elevations slightly in front of middle. 

 Elytra wider at base than thorax; disk with a faint oblique impression 

 from humerus to suture near middle, ending in a shallow black fovea on 

 first and second stria?; punctures coarse, close-set and deep, arranged in 

 regular rows; intervals not wider than the distance between the punctures. 

 Length 2.5-4 mm. 



Lake, Wells and Vigo counties; scarce. January 1-July 21. 

 Occurs mostly in sandy localities, beneath rubbish, where it hiber- 

 nates as imago. 



LXII. PACUYONYCHUS Chev. 1834. (Gr., "thick -i joint.") 



Represented in the eastern United States and Indiana by a 

 small, oblong, parallel smooth species, having the antenna a little 

 longer than half the body, the second and third joints short, nearly 

 equal in length, together longer than first but shorter than fourth, 

 joints 5 to 10 equal, not thickened as in the preceding genus; hind 

 tarsi moderately long, the first two joints triangular, the fourth 

 inflated at apex. 



2232 (C.924). PACUYONYCHUS PAKADOXUS Melsh.. I'roc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 



Ill, 1847, 163. 



Oblong, nearly parallel. Reddish-yellowT>^ti - a piceous. the suture nar- 

 rowly reddish-yellow ; antenna? black, the three has;: 1 - joints paler. Thorax 

 convex, more than one-half broader than long, not narrowed in front, sides 

 feebly curved, margins thickened at front angles, hind angles dentiform ; 

 surface sparsely and deeply punctate, the impression near base deep and 

 extending from side to side. Elytra wider at base than thorax, the punc- 

 tures of stria? coarse and closely placed ; intervals slightly convex, each with 

 a row of very fine punctures. Length 3-4.5 mm. 



Southern half of Stale; scarce. May 12-June 2(i. Occurs on 

 the greenbrier (Stnilax). 



LXIII. BLEPHARIDA Rogers. 185(i. (Gr., "eye-lid.") 



Here belongs a single robust, oval species having the antenna' 

 rather widely separated at base, half MS long as body, first four 

 joints smooth, the second half as long as first; third and fourth 

 slender, each longer than second ; 5 to 10 broader than fourth, grad- 

 ually very slightly shorter and pubescent, llth longer and with a 



