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FAMILY VII. — CORISCID^E. 



188 (312). Protenor belfragei Haglund, 1868, 162. 



Elongate, very slender, depressed above, convex beneath. Pale 

 brownish-yellow, shining, thickly marked above with more or less fus- 

 cous, rather coarse punctures; antennae reddish-yellow; membrane pale 

 brown; under surface dull yellow sprinkled with reddish dots; abdomen 

 with a median dark line, the sides with an irregular row of small piceous 



Fig. 53, X 5. (After Drake, Tech. Pub. Xo. 16, X. Y. St. Coll. For.). 



spots; legs and beak reddish-yellow, the tip of latter piceous. Head with 

 a short median groove behind the antenniferous tubercles. Pronotum 

 slightly impressed near apex, forming a collar, its humeri obtusely 

 rounded, not prominent. Length, 12 — 15 mm.; width, 1.2 — 1.8 mm. (Fig. 

 53). 



Marshall and Putnam counties, Ind., scarce, July 28 — Auo. 

 18. Swept from sedges and grasses along the borders of lakes 

 and marshes. Probably occurs sparingly throughout the north- 

 ern two-thirds of the State. Sherborn, Mass., Sept. 6 (Frost). 

 The known range extends from Quebec and New England west 

 to Colorado and south and west to Maryland and Texas. The 

 only record for Texas is that of Uhler (1876, 295) without 



