118 FAMILY IT.— OAEABTI)^. 



188 (731). Baujsteu notati s ll.-ild.. I'vw. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci.. I. 299. 



Elongate-oval, sleutlor. Head aud thorax black, shining; color other- 

 wise as given in key. Thorax obcordate; hind angles obtuse; basal impres- 

 sions deep, linear; median impressed line entire, deep. Length 4-4.5 nnu. 



Lake, IMarion. Crawford and Posey counties; rare. May 5-No- 

 vember 8. 



js;> * ( T.''>2 ) . I'.ADisiKK I'l iA;uELLrs Lee, Ann. Lye 

 Nat. Hist., IV, 1848, 418. 

 Llougate-oval. Head black, anteume dusky, first 

 Jnliit yellow. The two black spots on each el}i:rou 

 are sometimes connected by a broad stripe. Thorax 

 <)hc(n-date, the basal impressions broad and shallow. 

 Length 5.5-G.5 mm. (Fig. 70a.) 



Lake, Kosciusko and Vigo counties ; scarce. Oc- 

 curs beneath logs and bark along the margins of 

 marshes and lakes. Hibernates as imago. Jan- 



?. 70a. (Original.) uary G-Octobcr 29. 



I'.io (7.'!4). Badisteu macilatvs Lee. Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, X, 387. 



Elongate-oval. Color as given in key. Thorax obcordate with a deep, 

 Iraii^versc line between tlie basal impressions, the latter pr.iminent; me- 

 (liiiii impressed line entire, deep. Length (i mm. 



One specimen from Vigo County. Found beneath log in sandy 

 upland woods. October 17. Known before only from Pennsylvania. 



B. ohfvsns Lee. is a boreal species which may yet be found in 

 northern Indiana. B. flavipes Lee. is recorded from Cincinnati. 



ilH ( ). Badistek laticeps sp. nov. 



Elongate-oval. Piceous, shining; antenn;e and legs yellow, the apical 

 liali' nf fdrmer gradually dusky; narrow margin of el.ytra and epipleura 

 (lull yellow. Head as broad as thorax, faintly alutaceous; eyes prominent. 

 Thiirax slightly broader than long, narrowed from in front of middle to 

 base: margins naiM'owly reflexed, scarcely more so near hind angles, which 

 arc (ihlnse; surface tinely ahitaceons, basal impression deep, median line 

 (■111 ire. I']lytral sti'iie well imiiressed on disk, more shall<>w on sides; in- 

 lervals subccmvex. T^ength (! mm. 



Vigo, Kno.x, Clark and Perry counties; scarce. April 15-Sep- 

 tember 27. Resembles micans closely and confused in my collec- 

 1ion with that s.pecies until the type was examined at Cambridge. 

 Tn addition to differences mentioned in key the thorax in laticeps 

 is less transver.so and lias the h;;sal impressions deeper and better 

 (h^fined. From feii-utiinriis. a Caiifornian species, to which it is- 

 also closely nllied. it (lifip(>rs hv the less ti'ansvcrse thorax and the 

 Dale nntenna'. 



