850 FAMILY Xl.II. — CLERIDiE. 



KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OF CYMATODERA. 



a. Last ventral sejiment in both sexes smaller than last dorsal and never 

 deeply emarginate in the males. 

 6. Body black, thorax (except apex and base) and legs reddish -yellow; 

 last dorsal segment'of male broadly emarginate. 1622. bicolor. 

 bh. Uniform dark brown above. 



c. Last joint of antennae longer than joints and 10 (female), or 



7, 8, 9 and 10 (male) ; legs nuicolorons with elytra; last dorsal 



segment of male rounded at apex. brunnea. 



cc. Last joint of antennje shorter than joints 9 and 10 in both sexes ; 



legs paler than elytra ; last dorsal segment of male feebly notched 



at apex. 1623. inornata. 



aa. Last ventral segment broader than the last dorsal, the sides of the 



former reflexed, partly enclosing the latter; last ventral emarginate; 



elytra brownish, with from one to three pale undulating crossbars, 



sometimes in great part dull yellow. 1624. undulata. 



1622 (5136). Cymatodera bicolor Say, Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., V, 



1825, 174 ; ibid. II, 282. 

 Elongate, snbcylindrical. Black, feebly shining; thorax 

 (except apical and basal margins), legs (except knees and 

 apical fourth of femora), labrum, palpi and first two joints 

 of antenn.ie reddish-yellow ; under surface piceous. Antennje 

 feebly subserrate, joint two slightly shorter than three, three 

 to ten similar, eleventh longer. Thorax bell-shaped, one- 

 liiilf longer than v^^ide, strongly constricted behind the mid- 

 dle, finely and sparsely punctate. Elytra at base twice as 

 wide as thorax, rarely with a more or less distinct undulate 

 „. crossbar, the punctures coarse, deep and close-set. Length 



X 3i' 5.5-10 mm. (Fig. 331.) 



(Original.) 



Starke, Marshall and Crawford counties; scarce. 

 IMay 28-June 18. Beaten from foliage of oak. 



C. hrunnea Melsh., dark brown, abdomen paler; eh'tra very 

 coarsely and densely punctured, lenytb 7.5-li" mm., ranges from 

 New Jersey and Ohio to Texas and Arizona. 



1623 (5137). Cymatodera inornata Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist., I, 1835. 



161 ; ibid. II. 638. 

 Elongate, snbcylindrical, broader behind. Uniform dark brown, rather 

 thickly clothed with suberect yellowish hairs; antenna^ and base of femora 

 reddish-brown, the former with last joint scarcely longer than the tenth. 

 Thorax cylindrical, more than twice as long as wide; sides feebly contracted 

 before and behind the middle ; disk finely and rather sparsely punctured 

 and with a small fovea at middle of base. Elytra at base one-half wider 

 than thorax, thence gradually but distinctly widening to apical fourth ; the 

 punctures rather coarse and deep. Length 7-8.5 nmi. 



Lake County; rai-e. Juno 28. Described from Posey County. 



