TOf) FAMJLY XXXVTT. KLATEliTD.I-:. 



bb. Color picoons; front with a transverse carina between the eyes. 



1332. iioHNii. 

 (1(1. Second joint of antenna' small, not half as long as fonrth. 



c. Size smaller, not over G mm; front with a aistinct transverse carina 

 between the eyes ; color piceons. 1333. calceatus. 



cc. Size larger, 10 or more mm. ; carina wanting. 



(J. Joints 4 to S of antonniTO serrate, the last three more slender and 

 not serrate. molestus. 



(Id. .Joints 4 to 10 serrate, the last joint alone slender. 



1334. OECHESIDES. 



F. hadius :\relsh.. length 8-11 iiiiii.. is said to occur from Penn- 

 sylvania to Illinois; F. molestus Bonv.. dark reddish-brown, length 

 13 mm., is recorded from Cincinnati. 



1332 (4042). Fornax hornii Bonv., Eucn.. 1875, 891. 

 Elongate-oblong, rather robnst. Dark chestnut brown to piceous, feebly 



shining, the thorax usually darker than elytra. Antenmie feebly serrate, 

 a little longer than head and thorax, which are coarsely and densely punc- 

 tured. Base of clypeus less than a third the width of its apex and less 

 than half the distance to the eyes. Thorax as long as wide, sides parallel 

 on basal half, arcuate and narrowing in front of middle. Elytra striate, 

 faintly at middle, more deeply at sides, densely and subrugosely punctate. 

 Hind coxal plates abruptly broader at middle. Length 7-8 mm. 



IMarion and Posey counties ; scarce. May 1-May 18. Occurs in 

 half rotten w'ood of elm and other logs. Eesembles calceatus but 

 more robust, with, larger second joint of antenna? and more abruptly 

 dilated hind coxal plates. 



1333 (4041). Fornax calceatus Say, Trans, Amer. Phil. Soc, VI, 183G, 



188; ibid. II, G26. 

 Oblong, moderately convex. Dark brown or piceous, feeblv shining, 

 sparsely pubescent wifli ycll<iw Iiairs. AntenmT^ nearly half as long as 

 body, slender, the grooves deep and sharply limited. Head and thorax 

 coarsely, deeply and roughly punctured; the latter longer than wide, dis- 

 tinctly narrower in front, sides straight behind (he middle. Elytra nar- 

 rowed at ai)ical (hiid. faintly striate. c(,ai-s(>ly and rather densely punctate. 

 Hind coxal i)lates gr.-idnally hut rather widely dilated. Length .^) C nun, 



Marion and Posey (•(.unties; scarce. Api-il UVMay 2!), Be- 

 neath bai'k of beech and oak, 



i;!.",4 (4044). Fornax orciiesides Newm., Ent. Mag., V, 1838, 384. 



Oblong, moderately elongate, slightly narrower behind, convex. Dark 

 reddish-brown to iiieeoiis, I'eelily shining. .Vnietnia" slightly compressed, 

 extending a little be.V(md the hind aiigl(>s of thora.x. Head and thorax 

 coarsely and densely punctured; the latter as long as wide, sides feebly 

 narrowed behind the middle, obli(piely narrowed to the front on apical 



