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TV. I'liAX.Kis .MncLoiiy. 1S19. (Gr., "liii'ht be;iTor.") 



U'dlmst. l)i'illi;iiitl\ ctilid'cd forms, ilic males ol' our species witli 

 liead armed witli a lioru; tirst joint of iintennal cliil) hollowed out to 

 i-e('ei\-e liie others; front t-U'si o? males wlloll>' absent; tliose of fe- 

 males pnseiit. Imt vry small and slender. Two species occur in 

 Indiana. 



it;!-! (5452). PiiAN.Tirs (Ai;.mm:\ Liim.. Sysl. Naf.. I. 17<m. •" IC. 



r.i-oadly oval, somewhat Uattonod above. Head ^ 



liron/.ed: iliera.x l>ri.i;lil cupreous; elytra greeu, ofteu 

 tiu.i,M'tl with bluish. (Myix'us entire, armed in male with 

 a Inui: curved hern, in female with a short blunt tubercle. 

 'riKirax ef male with (lisl< Hat and hind angles nuich mure 

 priiuuueiil than in fi'maie: smi'ace very rcu^'li- Elytra ^ 

 striate: intervals broad, tinely and intricately rugose. 



deeply iMuiclured and more or le.ss custate. Length 1-i- 

 •2-2 nun. (Fig. 363.) 



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Thi-onirhout the State; frcMjuent. :\ray lO-Oe- (AH.r (n,.v,,.) 

 (ober 21. Notwithstandhiii' its disoustinti' habits this is one of our 

 most beautiful and interestinii' beetb-s. 



173o ( ). Phanevs torkexs Lee. Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1, Ser. 2, 



.1847, 85. 



Form of caniifc.r. Uniform coppery above; piceous. feebly bronzed be- 

 neath; palpi, stem of antemue and tarsi reddish-brown; club of auteunse 

 darker. Clypeus rounded, margin elevated; vertex in female transversely' 

 elevated, in male armed with a short, compressed acute horn. Thorax of 

 male with disk flattened and triangular, tinely scabrous; sides deeply sinu- 

 ate near base, hind angles obtuse; in female more convex, with a transverse 

 elevation near apex, disk with small, triangular, scale-like granules and 

 with a median impression on basal half. Elytra deeply striate, the strife 

 dilated at base; intervals strongly elevated, minutely and sparsely punc- 

 tate. Length 15-18 mm. 



IMonroe County ; rare. June 9. A single female collected by 

 ]\[ax Ellis. Described from St. Louis, IMissouri. After describing 

 this form as distinct. Dr. LeConte in 1868 placed it as a variety of 

 irianguJaris Say. In this he was followed by Blanchard. Chas. 

 W. Leng, to whom tlie specimen was sent for identification, takes 

 the ground that the original name forrvn.'i should lie restored until 

 the relationship of the beetle to I rianfiularis is settled. 



V. Onti!oimia(;!S Lat. 1S07. (Gr., " dung ^ eating.") 



Small oval beetles having the front coxie large, conical and pro- 

 tuberant ; third joint of labial palpi obsolete; tarsal claws distinct, 

 with a long setie-bearing i)rocess l>etween them. In some of the 



