538 FAMITA- XVII. — KNDOMS'OHTO.Ii!. 



'I'lii-oujihoiil the St;i-le; PihmjikmiI. Jamiaiy 8-Novcniber 14. 

 This and llie next si)eeies liilH'nialc. passing the winter months be- 

 neath logs, rails and eliuuks, ('specially those deeply covered with 

 dead leaves in fence comers or along the margins of upland woods. 



VT. Lycoperdixa Lat. 1807. (Gr., "a wolf + to break wind.") 



Here belongs a single oblong species having the front coxje con- 

 tiguous; thorax subquadrate, feebly narrowed behind, its base with 

 a deep transverse line and a short longitudinal one each side, the 

 sides sinuate and margined; elytra convex, the suture very finely 

 margined; scut^lluin broad and semicircular. 



*1027 (3181). Lycoperdina ferruginea Lee, Ann. Lye. Nat. Hist, I, 1824, 

 172. 

 01il(ing-oval. Piceous-black, shining; antennae, head, legs and narrow 

 margins of thorax and elytra brownish-red. Length 4.5-5.2 mm. 



Throughout the State; frequent. April 22-December 28. Oc- 

 curs most abundantly inside the little round fungus Lycoperdon 

 pijriforme Schjeff., which grows on old logs, where it feeds upon the 

 spores. By squeezing the ball, the beetle, if present, can be readily 

 felt. 



VII. Aphorista Gorh. 1873. (Gr.. "to mark off by boundaries.") 



Differs from Lycoperdina mainly l)y having the front coxae nar- 

 rowly separated, the prosternum being distinctly prolonged between 

 Ihcm. One si)e('ies occurs in the State. 



M02S (IJISO). Aphorista vittata Fab., Mant., I, 44. 

 Oblong-elongate. Brownish-red, shining; antennae 

 IiiciVius, the terminal joint paler; thorax with an in- 

 <lislhicl dusky spot each side of disk; elytra with a 

 cinmnon sntnral stripe, and each with a shorter one 

 (111 side, black. Length 5.5-G.2 mm. (Fig. 201.) 



A handsome and rather commcm species; found 

 FiK. 201 > 5. (Oiiaiiiai.) tlii'onghont the state. January 81-Novembcr 20. 



VIII. Mycetina Muls. 1840. (Gr./'fnngus.") 



In this genus the prostennim extends behind the coxas, but is 

 wider than in Aphorista and distinctly margined; thorax with deep 

 transverse impression ncai- base; from each end of which a length- 

 wise one extends forward to middle. One of the three North Ameri- 

 can species occurs in Indiana. 



