'j'HK ANT-J.()\iN»i i;i;i:ii.i:s. 'Sl'.i 



VU. Tviuy Aiihp. 18:^8. (WillKmt iii('aiiiii5>-.) 



Aiitciiiia' elavate; palpi with iii-st jninl miiiute; second loii^. 



curved: thii'tl slioi't. ()l)Ovate ; last joint with a needle-like s|)in(' a1 



apex; third tarsal joint lon^ci- than second. Two species pro])al)ly 

 ocenr in the State. 



Ki:V TO IMIIA.N.V S1'K( IKS OK T'l iU S. 



a. Anteiin;e ratlier eloiiiiato in l)olli sexes, the next to last joint of I'uniele 

 not ti'ansverse; enrin:e of alMJonien well developed. 



5t)S. HUMERALIS. 



aa. Autennte shorter and stouter, the three outer joints of fuuicle trans- 

 verse in female; thorax a little wider than long; cariuje of abdomen 

 very short and ineonsiiicuous. consimilis. 



59S (1875). Tykus humekalis Aube, Ann. Ent., II, 1S30, 84. 



Robust, compact. Piceous-black, clothed with tine, short appressed hairs ; 

 elytra, anteuute and legs reddish-bi-own. Head as long as broad, with two 

 small fove;e between the eyes. Antenn;e of male with joints one and two 

 cylindrical; 3 7 rounded, gradually smaller; eighth and ninth larger, globu- 

 lar; tenth obconical, twice as long and thick as ninth; eleventh largest, 

 ovate; female with joints .".-9 subecjual. tenth larger. Thorax bell-shaped, 

 widest at middle; disk with a median rounded fovea and a hue, transverse 

 sulcus near base. Elytra with luimeri prominent, disk very finely and 

 sparsely imnctate; each with a deep impressed line and fovea on basal 

 half. Abdomen liut little longer than elytra, margins very l)road, the last 

 dorsal notched at tip in male. Length l.G mm. (Fig. 14G, d.) 



Sonthei'n half of State: scarce. April IG-Jime 18. Taken by 

 siftina: and from beneath bark of stumps. 



T. coiisi>nilis C'asey, reddish-brown, elytra i)aler. length 1.8 mm., 

 was described from Kentucky and Indiana. I liave not seen a 

 s[)ecimen from the State. 



Vin. llAMorrs Aube. 1844. (Or., "like + ear.") 



Head not constricted behind tl'.e antennal tuliercles; third joint 

 of maxillary palpi very small, subglobular; last joint long and cy- 

 iindi'ical; ])ubescence yellowish, loose, coarse and long; elytra and 

 alxldiiien vei'v convex; second and tliii'd tarsal joints eiinal. One 

 species is known. 



599 (1876). IlA.MOTKs hathisioides Lee. N. 8p. N. Amer. Col.. I. 18(i3, 27. 

 Elongate-oval, convex. Fuscous-brown, shining. Head as broad as 

 long, very convex; vertex with two small fovete. Anteume nearly as long 

 as body; first and second joints cylindrical, thicker than third to fifth, 

 which are quadrate and gradually smaller; sixth to tenth a little wider; 

 eleventh pear-shaped, subci.mpressed. half as long as the preceding joints 

 together, somewhat smaller in female. Thorax as wide as long, sides 



