786 



FAMILY XXXIX. BITPRESTID.E. 



regularly curved; disk evenly grauulate-ituuetate with a 

 small inii)ression in front of scutellum. Elytra with mar- 

 gins serrate near tips, disk granulate-punctate. Length 

 9-12 mm. 



Clarion Comity; r;) re. June 22. One speciiiu'ii 

 talv-en from window of street ear. Recorded from 

 Georg'ia and Florida. 



M. appoulknlaia Fal). (loiifiip.s Say.) (Fi^x. 

 800), l)]ack. leiio'th 7-18 mm., lias been recorded 

 Fig 300. Mdanophiia froiii Cincinnati; M.a^ueola iMelsli., convex, bronzed, 

 appcdkuiata F-Ah. (.\fter length 4.5-6,5 111111., occurs in the "Middle and 



Packard in Fifth Rep. U. " 



s. Ent. Comiii.) Soutlierii States." 



VII. Antii.vxia Esch. 1S20. (Cr., "a flower i- worthy of.") 



Small flattened species, haviiiii' tlie mesosterinim narroAvly di- 

 vided and separated fi-om the metastertium by a distinct suture; an- 

 tenna' serrate in both sexes, the pores at the ends of the joints; 

 head and thorax marked with shallow ]uinctures with the interven- 

 ]UiX lines forming a fine network. Tlie genus has been mono- 

 graphed by 



Horn. — "Revision of the species of souk^ Genera of l)Upi'estida'." 

 ill Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, X, 1882, 106. 



Of llie ciglit species recDgnizcd l)y lloi-n. fonr have been taken 

 in Indiana, while another may occur. 



KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OF ANTHAXIA. 



(/. Body depressed. ()])l(ing-oval ; last ventral segment punctured like the 

 ones preceding. 

 b. Tarsal claws siin])le or merely a little hmnder at hase. 

 c. Elytra roughly granulate. UO."). .eneogaster. 



cc. Elytra feebly sculi)tured. at most with small raised points. 



(I. Body above and beneath uniform brownish-bronze, feebly shin- 

 ing; elytra witli fine raised points. 1406. viridifbons. 

 (Id. Body nearly black with a slight purplish lustre; front and sides 

 of thorax broadly cupreous or bronzed; elytra scarcely wrin- 

 kled. 1497. VIRIDICORNIS. 



hh. 'i'ars.il claws broadly toothed at base; color bright green, bluish or 



imriile. shining. 149S. quercata. 



(/(/. T',(((ly slender, wedge-slia i )cd : last ventral segment much more coarsely 



punctured than those preceding. flavimana. 



1495 (4(>2S). iVjNTTiiAxiA .EN ECO aster Lap.. :\Ion. I'.uprest., 1. 1837. 32. 



Rather broad, depressed. Above plceous or black, the surface with 

 faint bronze lustre; beneath, bronzed, more shining. Head densely punc- 

 tate, reticulate, front concave. Thorax nearly twice as broad as long, sides 

 feebly curved in front, slightly sinuate behind; disk coarsely reticulate, 

 usually with four shallow fovejie arranged in a curved transverse row. Ely- 



