824 



^'AMl^^• x!>. — h.wiPYKjaT:. 



yellow, the latter with disk red with a narrow median darlc stripe; ely- 

 tra brown or piceous. with the snture, nari-ow side margins and a nar- 

 row stripe on disk pale. Labrum tridentate. Thorax and elytra densely 

 and rather roughly punctured. Length 11-15 mm. (Fig. 819.) 



Thr(iii^li(!ut the Stit(-; oui- most cDiuinon fiictly. ?ilay 28-Au- 

 gust (i. 



Tribe II. PHENGODINI. 



In llii.s irihc the Ihoi'jt.x. Ihoug'li rounded in front. do(^s not cover 

 the head. The eyes are convex, i)roininent and widely separated ; 

 antenna' not approxijnate, phnnose or witli fan-like processes in 

 male; middle coxa- eonliiiuons. Two otMid'a arc i-cprcsented in the 

 State. 



KEY TO INDIANA GENERA OF I'lIENGODINI. 



a. Prosternum very shurt; front tlat, labrum large; elytra short, awl- 

 shaped ; tarsi Avith fourth joint lobed. XIV. Phengodes. 

 (III. Prosternum well developed; front convex, labrum small; antennoi ser- 

 rate. XV. Tyttiionyx. 



XTV. Phengodes 111 ig'. 1807. (Gr., "shining.") 



Medinni-sized species, having the head deei)ly and transversely 

 excavated behind the eyes; gnlar region deeply excavated, the su- 

 tnres continent. One species is known from the State. 



1569 (4852). Phengodes i^lumosa Oliv.. Ent., II, 1790, 26. 



,^ Elongate, robust, depressed. Dull yellow, finely pubes- 



ijjljl cent; head, antenme, tips of elytra and dorsal surface of 

 abdomen fuscous. Antenna? of male feather-like, the third 

 and following joints emitting long flexible branches. Tho- 

 rax more than twice as wide as long, almost smooth. Ely- 

 tra one-third the length of abdomen, very widely separated 

 at tips. Length 11-12 mm. (Tig. :520.) 



One in AVebster collection hili '!■':! "lid." Seems 

 1o be everywhere rare, though Say says: "Not un- 

 connuon I'oc ;i short period in autumn wluni, attracted by candles, 

 they enter the lionse in Ihe evoking .-uk! Hy i-cpeatedly against the 

 ceiling in their etforts to escape." 



XV. Tyttiionyx \ivr. ISoi. ((ir.. "small i claw.") 



Eyes small, i-onndcd. i'on\'ex : antciin.c nc'irly as long as the 



body. bro;ull>- compi^'ssed, strongly serrate, joints triangular, the 



second but (»ne half as long and one half as wide as third; the 



outer joints of male longer, narrowei- ;iiul more prolonged at tip 

 than 1he joinls |)rece<iing. ()ne species is known. 



