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color atus, Melanotus communis, Cryptohypmus abbreviatus, and Corym- 

 bites spp. (Consult Bull. 156, Bur. Ent., U. S. Dep. Ag., 1915.) 



Adults. — Slender oval hard beetles (the "dick" or "snapping" 

 beetles) with serrated antennas, mostly brownish in color, sometimes 

 black or greyish, or even metallic. In Agriotes mancus Say, the " wheat 

 wireworm," the thorax is very convex, coarsely and densely punctate, 

 and the front or clypeus convex. It is dull brownish yellow, dusky 

 beneath, sparsely pubescent, and about 3^^ inch long. Diasterius 



Pig. 192. — Agriotes mancus. 

 {After Forbes.) 



Pig. 193. — Melanotus cribulosus. 

 {After Forbes.) 



elegans Fabr. is dull reddish brown, about 3^^ inch long, sparsely pubes- 

 cent, head black, a median black spot on thorax, a black spot in front 

 of middle of each wing-cover, and a black cross-bar near the apex. 

 Asaphes decolor atus Say is shining black, about half an inch long, with 

 hind angles of thorax divergent. Melanotus communis Gyll. is about 

 3-^ inch long, dull brown, and with a more or less distinct median im- 

 pressed line on basal half of thorax (Figs. 192-195). 



