TTIR CLTCK BKKTLES. 769 



14(jG (4401)). OxYGONi's OHKSus Say, Jonni. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., Ill, IS'SA, 

 108 ; ibid. II, 109, 003. 

 Oltlon;;, rather robust. Antennip, head and tlmrax picoous, bronzed; 

 densely clothed with line yellowish hairs; elytra and under parts dull red- 

 dish-brown, more sparsely pubescent; leys and two basal joints of antenna' 

 paler. Third joint ot antennie twice as long as second, shorter than fourth. 

 'I'horax as wide at base as long, narrower in front; sides feebly rounded; 

 disk finely and densely punctate ; hind angles divergent, not carinate. Ely- 

 tra slightly widest behind the middle, then strongly attenuate to acute tilts; 

 stri;e with indistinct punctures; intervals subconvex, minutely punctulalc. 

 Length 10 mm. 



Kosciusko County ; rare. June 5. 



XLII. AsAPiiES Kirby. 1837. (Gr., "obscnre.") 



l^iffors from Conjmhitcs only in the strneture of the tarsi which 

 liavo tlie first joint as long as the n(\\t two together; the second and 

 third joints each dilated beneath into a short spongy lobe; fourth 

 joint small and narrow, received upon the third ; fifth joint elongate 

 with simple claws. The known North American species are treated 

 in tlie following paper: 



Horn. — "Notes on the Species of Asaphes of Boreal America," 

 m Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, VlII, 1880, 69-75. 



Three species have been taken in Indiana, while two others prol)- 

 ably occur. 



KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OF ASAPHES. 



a. Hind angles of thorax carinate, basal margin with short, more or less 

 distinct fissures. 

 h. Hind angles not divergent; prosternal spine curved. 

 c. Third joint of antenu;e shorter than fourth. 



d. Thorax very sparsely and indistinctly i)unctured. iNnisTiNCTus. 

 (hi. Thorax rather finely but distinctly punctured. 



1407. BREVICOLLIS. 



cc. Third joint of antenmie equal to fourth. 1408. memnonius. 



hi). Hind angles of thorax divergent; prosternal si)ine horizontal. (Fig. 



291.) DECOLORATUS. 



(Id. Hind angles of thorax not carinate; basal margin without fissures. 



1409. BILOBATUS. 



A. iiKllsliiicius Lec, piceous. leiiiith 1 1 mm., is a southern species 

 recorded from Cincinnati. 



1407 ( ). Asaphes bkevicoli.is Cand., Mon. Elat., IV, 212. 



Elongate, rather robust. Piceous-black or dark reddish-brown, shining, 

 sparsely clothed with grayish pubescence; antenn;e jialer, third joint two- 

 thirds the length of fourth. Thorax longer than wide, sides feebly curved. 



