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Frequent in southern Indiana, April 17 — Oct. 11; not taken 

 north of Marion County. Occurs singly or in pairs beneath 

 logs, stones and other cover, usually close to water, but some- 

 times on the slopes of high hills. One was beaten from oak 

 foliage. Probably hibernates as imago. Raleigh and Sun- 

 burst, N. Car., April 12 — May (Brimley) . Sanford, Dunedin, 

 Istokpoga, Moore Haven, Canal Point, Chokoloskee and Ever- 

 glade, Fla., Jan. 12 — Sept. 1 (W. S.B.). Listed from numerous 

 other points in Florida and probably occurs throughout that 

 state. The single specimen from Dunedin was taken from a 

 rotten grape-fruit. 



This, one of the largest and best known of our Cydnids, 

 ranges from Quebec and New England west to Iowa and Ne- 

 braska and south and southwest to Florida, Oklahoma, Texas 

 and Mexico, but is nowhere found in numbers and usually only 

 beneath cover. Parshley has not taken it in New England, 

 and includes it in his list only from the records of Uhler (1877, 

 384). Hart (1919, 204) mentions it as found in numerous 

 localities in Central and Southern Illinois, but notes only one 

 specimen from the northern part of the state. Stoner reports 

 but a single specimen from each of two stations in Iowa. It 

 is therefore probably very scarce north of latitude 41 degrees. 

 Say (I, 323) mentions a variety picea from Indiana as being 

 "entirely light piceous" in hue. All the Florida specimens 

 average smaller than those from the north, and have the punc- 

 tures of transverse impression of pronotum fewer and more 

 irregularly placed. 



36 (56). Pang^us discrepans Uhlev, 1877, 386. 



Differs from bilineatus in its more bristly head and relatively longer 

 and more slender second antennal. Pronotum with sides of apical half 

 more rounded, the curve beginning at middle, not at apical third as in 

 bilineatus, disk with transverse impression vague or wanting, but with 

 numerous punctures across the basal third. Scutellum with more nu- 

 merous and finer punctures, its tip more narrowly rounded, the trans- 

 verse line at base deeper and with coarser punctures. Corium relatively 

 longer and more narrow, its hind margin truncate and apical angle not 

 prolonged ; membrane shorter and broader than in either of our other 

 species. Length, 6.5 — 8 mm. 



Brownsville, Tex. (U. S. Nat. Mus.) . The recorded range 

 extends from Indiana and Tennessee, west and south to Califor- 

 nia and Texas. 



