THE CLICK BEl-n'LEt 



7:^9 



XXX. A(iKM()Ti:s Ksch. l.^'ii). i<!i-.. "wild.") 



.Mddcnitr sized oMmi'^' spc.-i.'s. hnviiiu' the prnstcrmiiii Inhcd in 

 I'nml. its siilmvs doulilc: ;iiit>Miii;i' slender, sc.-ii'ccly scfrntc. tlu' 

 first .joiiit ;i little lniii;ci- tiuiii iisiud ; hind eoxnl i>l;iles but slii-hlly 

 |,i-,,;ider on t!ie inner side, nn.l with ;i Inr-v tooth ;d)oV(' lh(> inser- 

 tion of (he (hiiihs. For ;i synoplienl l;il)h' of Ihe XoiHi Aiuei-icaii 

 species \vi11i notes, see 



LcContf.—' '^hort Studies of North American Coleoptera— 

 Agriotes." in Trans. Amer. Ent. Soe., XIT. 1884, 15-10. 



Six species have been taken in Indiana, while another probably 

 occurs in the northern counties. 



KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OF AGKIOTES. 



(/. niiKl coxal plates very gradually dilated from without to inner side 

 and not twice broader at inner third than at outer end. 

 b. Form robust; mandibles thick, the tips broad, chisel-shaped; thorax 

 very convex, coarsely and densely punctate. 1395, manci s. 



hh. Foi-m more slender; mandibles much more slender, tips subacute. 

 e. Thorax coarsely punctured in frent. very finely and densely punc- 

 tured behind the middle. 1396. stabius. 

 cc. Thorax similarly, usually coarsely, jtunctured over the entire sur- 

 face. 

 (1. Antenna^ with jdints two and throe each distinctly shorter tlian 

 fourth ; side margin of thorax distinct in its entire length. 

 <■. Hind angles of thorax not visibly carinate; color pale brown 

 with dense grayish pubescence; smaller. 7-S mm. 



1397. INSANUS. 



ec. Hind angles of liiovax very distinctly carinate; color variable; 

 larger, 9-12 nun. Fucosrs. 



(/(/. .\nteiui:e with joints two and tlnve each erpml in length to, and 

 scarcely narrower tlian. .ioint four; side margin of thorax in- 

 distinct ill llie middle of its length and very nuich detlexed in 

 front : color dark fuscous. 1398. pubescens, 



nil. Hind coxal plates rather suddenly dilated within, m<ae than twice as 

 broad at inner third than at outer end, 

 f. .Toints two and three of antemue each shorter than fourth, the third 

 sliorter than se<-ond : thorax distinctly longer than wide. 



1399. OBLONOICOLLIS. 



ff. Antenna^ with joints two. three and four very nearly of erpial length ; 

 thorax scarcely longer than wide, coarsely and deeply punctate. 



1400. AVULSUS 



