FAMILY LVHI.- MKLANDKYID.K. 



XIV. PHLCEOTRYA Steph. 1832. (Gr., "bark i -to bore.") 



This genus includes those species usiuilly listed under Dircwa. 

 They are of medium size, have the head vertical ; prosternmn short, 

 not separating front coxa 1 : males with front tarsi rather widely 

 dilated and the last ventral segment truncate or emarginate. Two 

 of the seven species recognized by Horn have been taken in the 

 State and another perhaps occurs. 



KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OF PHLCEOTRYA. 



(i. Antenna* slender, joints longer than wide; length 7 or inure nun. 



1>. Thorax shining, simply punctate; elytra each with two yellow spots 

 of irregular shape. 2399. QUADRIMACULATA. 



lib. Thorax opaque, rugulose ; elytra uniform brown or piceous. 



2400. VAUDOUERI. 



aa. Antennae with joints somewhat triangular, nearly as wide as long; 

 length (> mm. CONCOLOR. 



2399 (76G9). PHLCEOTRYA QUAPKIMACTLATA Say, Long's Exped.. II, Isi 1 :;. 



283; ibid. I, 1ST. 



Elongate-oval, convex, narrower behind the middle. Dark reddish- 

 brown or piceous, feebly shining, sparsely pubescent; antemue, palpi and 

 front margin of thorax pale; elytra each with a yellowish, irregular, II- 

 shaped spot on basal third and a very irregular one on apical third. Tho- 

 rax slightly wider than long, disk with sides strongly sloping, finely and 

 densely punctate. Elytra more sparsely punctured, the punctures on basal 

 half unequal and coarser than those near apex. Length 7.r>-ll mm. 



Lake, Putnam, Marion and Crawford counties; scarce. May 28- 

 July 15. Occurs on moss of beech and maple trees. Commonly 

 listed as Dirccea THurata Lee., but Say's name has priority, as it 

 was thrown aside by LeConte only on the ground that it had been 

 preoccupied under Serropalpus. 



2400 (7671). PHLCEOTRYA VAUDOUERI Mills., Col. Fr. Barbip, 79. 

 Elongate, subeylindrical. slightly depressed. Dark brown to piceous. 



feebly shining, sparsely clothed with short. In-own pubescence; labrum, nar- 

 row front margin of thorax, antenna; and legs reddish-brown. Thorax a 

 little longer than wide, sides rounded into apex; surface finely, densely and 

 more or less rugosely and contiuenlly pundate, the basal impressions very 

 faint. Elytra with two or three vague cost.-e. the surface of basal half more 

 sparsely and coarsely punctured than (borax. Length 7-9.") mm. 



Perry County; rare. May 31. Occurs beneath bark. 

 P. co color Lee., dark brown, antennas piceous, legs fuscous, the 

 tarsi paler, is known from Pennsylvania and near Cincinnati. 



XV. SYMPIIORA Lee. 1866. (Gr., "joined.") 



Here belong two small, elongate, brownish or piceous species 

 having the head scarcely dellexed, not constricted behind the eyes; 



