c. Form elDiisiiite: Iniiiu'r.-il i-:u-iii;i lon.ic. furvod (Hitw.-inl in front; 



olytia sni'Kith : kMii,'th 2;Mi(; uini. IT. klongatcs. 



tv. Form I.niiidor: humeral carina siiort : elytra usually with pairs 



of l.uiictures; leuiitli 28-:J0 mm. 48. pi-nctulatus. 



a:, (UKM. r.\si.\iArni s suiu..t:vis Bon., Obs. Fiil.. isi:;. U\. 



KlonuMto -oblong. Black with bine margins. Thorax subquadrate. 

 ir. lit angles prominent, sides feebly curved, suddenly converging at basal 

 third. Klytra with sides parallel, convex: disk with faint rows of small 

 piiiictures. Length 21-2S mm. (Fig. 40.) 



Known from Indiana hy a sino-lo spccinion taken from ])eneath 

 a, lou- on the sandy margin of llie old canal north of Terre Haute, 

 \"\[:o Connty. May 16. 



4i; (214). l'.\si.MA( irrs depressus Fab., Syst. Eut.. I, 171)2. ".»4. 



I'dack. usually with blue margin. Labrum broadly and feelily trilobed ; 

 mandibles feebly or not at all striate. Hind tarsi long and slender. Fe- 

 iii.ale (bdl. male shining. Lengtli 24-80 nnn. (Fig. 41.) 



Connnoii sin.a'ly or in ])airs beneath stones and logs on the slopes 

 of hio-h liills near Wyandotte. Trawford Connty. Mav 17-June 26. 



47 (217). Taslmachis Ki.o.NciATis Lee, Aim. Lye. Xat. Hist., IV, 1848, 

 147. 



Black with'blue margins. :More elongate and less broad than the pro- 

 ceding: hind tiliia* and tarsi less slender. Labrum broadly trilobed, the 

 middle Inhe the wider; mandibles tiindy hut distinctly striate. Length 

 2:; 2ii nnn. 



Lake, IMarion and Vigjo connties ; scarce. iNIay 16-Angnst 26. 

 4S (218). I'ASiMACHis PiNcri 1.ATIS riald.. I'ror. I'hil. Acad. Xat. Sci.. 1. 

 299. 



Allied to P. depressus. but differing by the hind tiliia' and tarsi being 

 less slender and less elongate, and by the hind tibitie of the male being 

 densely pubescent on inner side near tip. Elytra usually with rows of 

 punctures, approximate by pairs. Mandildes deeply and coarsely striate. 

 Length 28-.30 mm. (Fig. 42.) 



Throiio-hont the State; frequent. .April 2-.Tiily. 6. 



X. ScARiTES Fab. 1775. (NL., "a scrateher.") 



Narrow, oblong- blade beetles having the body very plainly pe- 

 (hmcnlate ; hind angles of thorax wanting; elytra parallel, rounded 

 behind and without humeral cai'ina'; front tibi-v widened, flattened 

 and toothed on outer side. 



Two species occur in onr fauna, and aiv (|uile comim)n about 

 gardens and borders of cultivated tichls hcticalli logs, stones and 

 rnbbisli. I'licy Feed upon aninial Food alone and arc vei-y ben- 

 eficial. 



