'I' 1 11' r. ami';I;!,ic()i;n inihrrLKS. 



953 



1700 (5()()7). Dk iii.i,(>.NV( ii.\ Ai.iiKoi.i.is Bunn., Handb. Eiit., IV, 1S42, 74. 



lOloiiiialt', parallel. ratlHT rdlaist. Dull brownisli or fuscous yellow. 

 si>arsely (IhIIiimI willi slini'l piilH'seouce. lOlyU'a with .i^reeuish luslre, the 

 suture and uiargins pah-r. Head coarsely aud densely punctured; suture 

 feel)ly nni)resse<l ; clypeal uiar,i;iu ni()derat(>ly reflexed. Thora.K coarsely 

 and sparsely punctured, sides obtusely anj;ulato, oblique near hind angles, 

 which .are broadly rounded. Elytra coarsely ])nnctured. Males with outer 

 spur (if hind tibi;i- iiuicli brdadcr tlian inner, truncate at tip and distinctly 

 twisted. Lenu'tli 1 1 \-.'> mni. 



I'oftcr County: scarc(\ .liiiic 27-.Iuiie 28. licatcii from pine 

 near Dune Park. Easily disliiiLiuishc-i i»y its lar^ei- size and deep 

 median c^roovc of thorax. 



XX. M.\CHOn.\CTVns Lat. 1825. (Clr., "long' i- toe or claw.") 



The menihers of this i-oinis arc coiiiiiii»n!y known as "rose-bugs" 

 and are ek)ngate, rather shuider beetles having the elytra densely 

 covered with yellowish scales; tarsi very long and bearing long, 

 slender diverging claws cleft at tip, more deeply in the female; 

 labrnm not united with clypeus; front eoxffi prominent and conical. 

 Males with front and hind tibia' without spurs; prosternum elevated 

 in a vertical spine b(>lnnd the front coxre; pygidium elongate in- 

 stead of triangular as in the female. Two of the three known 

 North American species have been taken in Indiana. 



ISOO (5000). Macrodactyli's subspinosus Fab., Syst. Knt., 170S, 30. 



Elongate, slender. Dull brownish-yellow or 

 reddish-brown, densely covered with yellow 

 scales or hairs; head, thorax and under surface 

 usually darker: tarsi and apex of tibite black. 

 Thorax convex, a little longer than wide, nuich 

 wider at middle and rapidly narrowing thence 

 to both base and apex; surface with short, re- 

 cumbent yellow hairs, male, or with recumbent 

 hairs and sliort. vertical sel:e intermingled, fe- 

 male. i:iytra indistinctly striate. Male with 

 prosternal spine as long as coxre and visible 

 from the front, the ventral segments each with 

 two to five slender bristles on each side; ven- 

 tral segments of fenuile with a few median erect 

 hairs. I>ength S-10 nun. (Fig. o71.) 



Tliroughout the State; very connnon. 

 June 5— July ."). Noted especially on wild 

 o'rane viiu's about the borders of marshes I'ls. 37i. Line shows natural size. 



>- I . . , (After Forbes.) 



and lakes in northern Indiana. This is the 



best known rose chafer or i-ose beetle, and is very destructivt; in Ih 



