TIfl'; II WDSOAIK ITXCrS I'.KKTLKS. 539 



MOl'O cnsTi. .MvcKiiNA iMoiUM i.ciiKA Ncwiii.. Eiit. M:ij,'.. V. 1S:',S. ;>,l)(). 



( tldoiii,'. rircdiis-hl.Mck, sirmiii.t;; (lidnix nMldisli-ycllow, soriiotiiiios witli 

 :i hhickisli disri.id.il siiiiic: clvii-.i c.kIi willi Iwo rcddisli-ycllow spiils, tlu? 

 larger siihliniiu'i.il. lin' nilicr sulinpicjil. M:\\v with froid niid Iniid lilii.-c 

 an.milato williiii. l-ciiLrtii I nun. 



Steuben, lljiiicdck. \'io(') imd Cmw I'ord couiilics; srare'c. May 

 1 7-De.eember 3. 



IX. Stkno'iwksis Perty. 1S31. (Or., "narrow ! tarsus.") 



One speeies. listed as Myccfina Irsiacca Ziegf., but evidently be- 

 lon«:in<;r to this uenus. lias been taken in the State, while another may 

 occur. 



KI:Y to 1.\I)IA.\.V SIMXIKS OF STENOTARSUS. 



a. Prosteriium spoou-shiijK^'d and lu-oloiiiicd ovor the Tiiesostenuim ; elytra 



wholly dull yellow. 1030. testackus. 



(1(1. Prostermim dilateil. not siKxin-sliaped, not prolonged over the niesoster- 



nuni ; disk of elytra nsnally black. uispidiis. 



*10oO (:1189). Stknotaksis tkstackus Ziegl., Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 

 II. 18-15, 272. 

 Elonsate-oblong. Reddish-yellow, shining, sivarsely pnJDescent with pros- 

 ti-ate yellow hairs; head and sides of thorax often paler; club of autennte 

 piceous. Thorax sutxiuadrate. widest before the middle; hind angles promi- 

 nent . somowiiat prolonged and exeurved ; disk, as well as that of elytra, 

 finely and sparsely ]tunetate. rA'ngth :;.."» 4 nun. 



Starke, Vigo, Posey and Ci-awford eounties; scarce, except lo- 

 cally. March O-Decenibci' 11. Oct-ui's benc^nth logs in upland 

 sandy Avoods. Tn such a locality I foutu! it on a inimbcr of oe 'asions 

 in Vigo County, always beneath th(^ same log and nowhere else. 

 When T first took it th(» log was so large that 1 had to use great exer- 

 tion to turn it part way over. Returning aftci' ten years' absence 

 1 found the sanu' log. reduced to a chunk, easily ovcrtui'iicd l)y one 

 hand, and beneath it T tool\ twenty or more of the beetles. 



S. Jilspi^Jiis llcrl)st.. Iciigtli -1-4..") mill., is recorded from the 

 middle and soiitlicni States and lias liecii taken near Cinciiiiiati. 



Family WITT. T<:R0TYTJ1)Jv 



TiiK Pli:.\six(; Frxcus Kreti^er. 



A family of moderate extent. comjU'ising. for the most i)art, 

 beetles elongate oi- oval in form, and of medium or small size. ^Tany 

 of them are very prettily bicolored. possessing a red thorax, with 

 black or bhick and red elytra, or tlie i-everse. A number, however, 



