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FA:\irLY VIII. SILPIIID/E. 



subhumeral row of imnctiires; intervals flat, shining, sparsely pnnctulate. 

 the alternate cnes \Yith a few widely distant, coarser punctures. Length 

 2.5 mm. 



Pine, Lake County, and near Clear Lake, Steuben County; 

 scarce. May 2-]May 25. A member of the boreal fauna. Resem- 

 bles a small PalJndes paJIidus, a common fungus beetle of the family 

 Nitidulida\ 



A. covferta Lee., pieeous, elytra paler, length 2.5 mm., is known 

 from Illinois. A. ohsoleta Melsh., reddish-yellow or pale chestnut- 

 brown, length 1.5-2.5 mm., is said to occur from the Atlantic to 

 Colorado. 



IX. CoLENis Erichs. 1832. (Gr., "knee.") 



tiere belongs one minute pale species having the labrum emar- 

 ginate; last joint of maxillary palpi cylindrical; antenna 11- 

 jointed, .joints 9-11 forming a loose, oblong club : tarsi 5^-4 in 

 both sexes. 



Fis. 143. a, Colenis impunctafa Lee; b, Liodes gcminnia Horn; c, Cyrtusa blandissima Zimm.; d, hind leg 

 and middle tibiiE of male of same; e, hind leg of C. egina Lee., male. (After Horn.) 



557 (17S1). Colenis impcnciwta Lee, Proe. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci.. VI. 

 1853, 284. 

 Broadly oval, convex, not contractile. Uniform pale reddish-brown, 

 shining. Thorax more than twice as wide as l(>ng. much narrowed in front, 

 apex feebly emarginate, surface smooth, hind angles rectangular. Elytra 

 broadly oval, nearly as wide as long; surface finely transversely strigose. 

 Length 1.5-2 mm. (Fig. 143, a.) 



Throughout the KState; frequent. April 22-December 7. Oc- 

 curs especially in fleshy fungi on beech stumps. 



X. Liodes Latr. 1796. (Gr., "smooth.") 



Small oval or hemispherical beetles having well defined oblique 

 antennal grooves on under surface of head; clypeus slightly pro- 

 longed beyond the front; labrum usually truncate; antennae 11- 

 jointod. joints 7-11 forming an elongate loose club (Fig. 4, No. 6) ; 

 tarsal joints 5-5-4 in males, 5-4-4 in females. They live in patches 



