•nil': Cl.lt'K lilvI'lTLKS. 



717 



ki:y to genkra oi;" ciialcolkpidiint. 



(/. riKii'Mx wil limit Inrirc volvoty blnck spots; seutelluiii (ilu-di-diitc ; iii;ir;;iii 

 (if t'lyira dlisolctc <iii Imsal li.-ill'; ;iiiit'iin;i' i>\' in.-ilc peel iiintc 



< 'llAIA Ol.KI'IDirs. 



aa. Tlionix with Iwn lar.m" velvety lilack sjidts on disk; sciitellimi oval; (ely- 

 tra stroiiijiy margined. XV. Ai.aus. 



(']i(il(()J( pidius rirldl i>llis Say. hlacl^. densely clothed with mi- 

 tnile olive-oray scales, leiitilh 22..") nun., (iccui's in the Middle and 

 Soutliei'ii States and is recorded froiii ( 'iiicinnal i. 



XV. Alms Ksch. ISiifi. (Pxr., "wander.") 



Tlio characters of this L>eniis are siil'fieieiit ly set forth above. 

 Two of the live Icnown North Ainerican species occni- in Indiana. 



1353 (4093). xVlavs ocila ri s lauii., Syst. Xnt., 11. 1T»'.<i. ^\7>\. 

 Elongate, subconvex. lUack. shining ; marked witli 



small, irregularly disposed blotches of pale silvery 

 scales; each side of thorax with a large romided black 

 eyo-like spot surrovnided by a ring of pale scales. Ely- 

 tra distinctly striate; intervals convex, finely and 

 sparsely punctulate. Length 28-45 mm. (Fig. 277.) 



Throughout the State; frecfuent iu the south- 

 ern portion ; less so in the northern counties. 

 March Ki-Oetober 21. Tliis is tlie best known 

 member of the family in the State. The adult 

 usually l)egins 1o occur in numbers about mid- 

 April and is then to lie found beneath the loose 

 bark of half-rotten stumps or h)gs, in orchards 

 or dr\'. oi)en woodland. I once took a single 

 male froiii liem^atli some honeycoml) in a dense woods in Marion 

 County on March 1(). It was as lively as though it were midsum- 

 mer, though the mereui-y had ])een far below the freezing point 

 oidy two days before. The larva, when nearly full grown, is a 

 smooth cylindrical worm nearly two and a half inches long and 

 four-fifths of an iiu-h wid(> across the middle of the body; of a 

 creamy yellow color, with the head and one or two front segments 

 brown and the la<t segment black, with a semicircular notch at 

 end. It lives upon ai.d in decaying wood and is often to be foinid 

 in the trunks of old apple trees. 



1354 (4094). Ai.Ai s myops Eabr.. Syst. Elent.. II, 1801, 222. 



Elongate, subconvex. Black, feebly shining, sjiarsely cldtlied with 

 irregnlar puliescence. Thorax lunger than wide. t'(H>b]y ccinvex, slightly 

 wider in front; disk with ey<'-like sp(.ts narrow, elliptical, black. siii;iller 



Fig. 277. (After Harris.) 



