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FAMILY II. CARABID.T:. 



XXXVIII. Oalerita F;)h. 1801. (L., "a helmet.") 



Pubescent beetles of nietlium size and graceful form, having the 

 head and elytra black or bluish-black, the thorax cordiform, red- 

 dish-brown. Head elongate-oval, strongly constricted behind; neck 

 slender; first .joint of antennro elongate. Elytra oval, broadly 

 obliquely truncate behind, finely striate. They occur beneath 

 cover, along fence rows and m open woodlands and are often at- 

 tracted in great nuniliers by electric lights. Dr. Forbes dissected 

 17 specimens of G. janvs and found that 88 per cent of their food 

 consisted of cankerworms and other injurious forms, the canker- 

 worms alone making up 52 per cent. A synoptic table of the genus 

 is given by 



Leconie.—BnW. Brook. Ent. Soc, II, 1879, 61. 



Five species of the genus arc known from the United States, 

 two of which occur in Indiana. 



KEY TO INDIANA SPKCIES OF GAI.EKITA. 



(I. Head behiucl the eyes stroui^ly vonnded ; i)ubescen<-e of elytra nnifonii. 



obliquely decumbent. 242. .tanis. 



(la. Sides of head longer behind. ol»li(ine and less rounded; i)nbescenrc ol 



elytra erect near the scutellnm. 24.'>. uuoi.or. 



242 (851). Galerita .ianis Fab.. Syst. Eleut.. I, 1801. .".<;; S;i.v. IT. 44C). 



E]()ug;ite-oval. BlMck. densely clothed with short hairs; k'gs, iialjii. 

 thorax and base of antennae reddish-brown. Thorax slightly longer than 

 wide, the margin reflexed at hind angles, which are rectangular. El.vtral 

 stri:e fine, not punctured ; intervals flat, finely, transversely rugose. Length 

 17-22 mm. 



Southern half of State; frequent. April 21-August 14. 



*243 (S5.'5). Oaierita ricolor Drur.v, Ins., I. 1770. 04. 



Very similar to tho ])receding. Distinguished by tlie char- 

 icters given in l^ey iTnd b.v its usually smaller size an<l 

 \ smoother elytia. 'I'lie latter are more often blue-l)Ia('k than 

 iilack. I.cuglli 17 21 nun. (Fig. s2. i 



Throi'trbiui.t the State: common. January 1-Octo- 

 her 12. A pair were found mating on May 23. 



Zuphiuni anun'ranum Dej. has been taken by Dury 

 near rincinnati. It is a small, slender brown form, 

 living undo- llal st(nics and I'liiis vci'v rapidly when 



Fig. 82. X 1*. . 1 . 



(Original.) UllCOVerecl. 



