TiiK AM'-JX)\iX(; iii;i:ii,i;s. 331 



afa Lee, brownish-yellow, legs and antennas paler, pubescence 

 feeble, length 1.2 mm., is known from, the ^liddle and Southern 

 States. 



XVIT. KrPF.Errrs Loach. 1817. (Gr., "good + fold.") 



l)i'])f('?,tsetl, linear; abdomen with three basal segments e((ual in 

 leiiglli. the fourth prolonged. Itic border wide; ventrals six in fe- 



iii;il('; scvcMi. th" hist one "•;ii'iii;i1('. in male. The following species 

 ha\(' been taken oi- may occur iti tlie State: 



]<i;V TO lx\Dl.\NA SPECIES OF KUPLECTl'S. 



(/. Head uarnnvcr tlinn thorax; lirst and second dorsal segments with 

 short carinas elytra convex; su1ui-al lines deeply impressed, discal 

 ones half the length of elytron. 025. rossui.ATrs. 



tia. Head as wide as or wider than thorax. 



h. Foveje of head widely distant, sitnated behind the middle; body less 

 slender, more con\ ex. 

 r. Head not wider than thorax; shoulders wider than head or thorax. 

 '/. Sides of elytra nearly straight, divergent; sides of thorax broad- 

 ly and evenly curved; pubescence feeble; length t.2 mm. 



SPINIFER. 



lid. Sides of elytra curved; those of thorax sinuate behind middle; 

 length 1.5 mm. intekruptus. 



cc. Head wider than thorax. 



c. Shoulders wider than head, thorax narrower, as wide as long; 



base of abdomen narrower than elytra. congener. 



ec. Shoulders as wide as head; sides of elji:ra parallel; form linear, 



subdepressed ; head not punctured. IvInearis. 



hh. Fovete of head smaller, much nearer together, sitnated in front of 



middle; head strongly punctured. 626. confluens. 



625 (9442). Euplectvs fossci^tis Brend.. Hull. Lab. Nat. Hist. Iowa. II. 

 1891, 59. 

 Dark brown, shining, sparsely pubescent. Head wider than long, de- 

 pressed in front ; occiput convex between the fove:e. Antenn;e as long as 

 head and lliorax : joints tliree to eight very small, wider than long; ninth 

 and tenth each onc-lialf wider than the one preceding; eleventh oval- 

 acumiuate. longer than ninth and tenth together. Thorax wider than long; 

 dislx minutely i)unctate and with .i large fusiform median sulcus, which ends 

 behijid in a deep triangular foM'.-i. Ilie latter connected by a deep groove 

 with a large fovea each side. Elytra with liumeri liigh and in-ominent; 

 each with three basal punctures. Length 1.2 nun. 



Lawi'enee and Ci'awford counties; rare. .May ll^lay 27. 

 Taken by sifting, ('asey places this under Thrsiash s bnt the two 

 basal segments of abdomen are distinctly cnrinate as descT'ibed by 

 Brendel. 



