GG I''AM1TA'' IT. CAlJAiilDJi;. 



•T."! (2!)<)). Panag.^us fasciatus Say, Trans. Amer. Pliil. 

 S(^c.. Tl. 1Sl>:!. TO; ihid. II, 490. 



Il'''i'l .111(1 lliiH-;i\ i-('(l(lisli-lii-<)\vn ; elytra reddish-browij 

 Willi .1 lil.ick <i-(iss-li:in(l lit'liiiid the inidrlle and another at 

 tijis; iciis .•111(1 nbddiiKMi piccous. Thorax and elytra punc- 

 tnred as in the preceding. Length 7.5-8.5 mm. (Fig. 48.) 



Fig. 48. Thrniio-liout the State; scarce. January 14-Octo- 



(AfterLeng.) j^^^, -^q Sometimes fonncl crawling- along woodland 

 patlis; hibernates as imago. 



Tribe II. NOMIINI. 



Antenna^ arising from beneath a distinct frontal ridge, the 

 third joint nearly as long as the two following. Head stout, oval, 

 neck broad ; labrum short, broadly emarginate ; mandibles curved, 

 with a feeble tooth on inner edge at middle and a bristle-bearing 

 puncture in the outer groove. Body pedunculate, scutellum in- 

 visible. Elytra slightly margined at liase. Hind coxaB contiguous; 

 tarsi not dilated. 



The tribe is represented in southern Europe and the tJuited 

 States by a single species, Nomius pygmmiis Dej., an elongate-ob- 

 long, chestnut brown or piceous beetle, 7 mm. in length, having the 

 apex of thorax nearly twice the width of base and the elytra feebly 

 striate-punctate. "While its range is given as "New Jersey, Canada 

 and Lake Superior, southward and westward to California," no 

 verified specimen has been seen from Indiana, though one Avas in 

 the Stein collection without locality label. It is said to occur under 

 stones in moist places and to exude a very ill-smelling liquid when 

 disturbed. 



Tribe III. MORIONINI. 



Head suddenly narrowed behind the eyes, neck stout; mentum 

 deeply emarginate, last joint of palpi cylindrical. Elytra feebly 

 margined at base, the disk with a single dorsal puncture on the 

 apical third of third interval. Hind coxa? contiguous; front tibia? 

 ti'iangular. not spinose at the oriter apical angle: first three joints 

 of front tarsi slightly dilated in the male. 



The tribe is represented in the Southern States by a single spe- 

 cies, Morio momlicornh Latr., elongate, shining black, 12-16 mm. 

 in length, the thorax with deep basal impressions. It lives beneath 

 ])ark, has been taken l\v Dury near Cincinnati, and very probably 

 occurs in the sontlicrn third of Indiana. 



