986 



FAMILY L. SrAnAr..T.ID.T3. 



]S4n (.jS42). SiKKiODKiiMA AunoRrcoLA Fab., Syst. KltMit.. II. ISOI. 174. 



()v;il. siilidi'prt'sscd. IIcihI. llHirax .-uul scntellniii dull hhu'klsli-grccn. 

 shiiiiii.ii: sides "if IlKirax usually iu jiart (U" wluilly palo; olytra dull I)r(i\vu- 

 ish-yellow, often suffused with Fuseuus or piceous, especially on the sides 

 and along the suture; under surface and legs piceous, sparsely clothed with 

 long grayisli hairs. Head coarsely, rouglily and confluently punctured. Tho- 

 rax one-half broader than long, sides feebly curved, hind angles rounded, 

 front ones acut(>; surface coarsely. shallo\\!\- and ratJier sparsely punctate, 

 with an impressed median line on middle third and two irregular depres- 

 si(Mis on each side. Elytra with ail the stria> distinct, entire and deeply 

 impressed. Length 10-12 nun. 



Throughout the State; frecjuent. ^lay 25-Jiily 9. Occurs 

 most coiumonly on tlie flowers of wUd rose, blackberry and the 

 water willow, DianUiera aniericana Ijinn. In two specimens the^ 

 thorax, elytra and legs are wholly reddish-yellow. On the other 

 hand, four La]\0 County specimens have the thorax wholly bluish 

 black. 



XXVI. Petjdnota MacL. 1&17. (Gr., "to make livid.") 



Belonging here we have in Indiana one large, convex, rol)ust 

 species, readily distinguished by the characters given in key. 



1844 (5844). Telidnota punctata Linn., Syst. Nat., 1758, 350. 



Broadly oval, convex. 

 Above dull reddish-brown or 

 Iirownish-yellow ; under sur- 

 face and legs, top of head and 

 scutellum black tinged with 

 greenish; thorax with a small 

 round black dot each side and 

 elytra eadi with two or three 

 similar dots on the side. En- 

 tire upper surface finely, 

 sparsely and irregularly punc- 

 tured. Length 20-25 mm. (Fig. 

 4Cm;.) 



Throughout the State, 



--^^ frequent ; less so in the 



northern counties. Occurs 



, both wild and 



The larvffi live 



FiK 4l)h 



n 1 m I ( 1( ^ nl 

 ') pujn in its (til 



/ 111 (it abdniiun of same; OU the UHipC, botll wild aud 

 1m. tie ( Vftei Rik\ ) 



cultivated 

 upon decaying roots nnd stum]")S of various trees. 



XXVTl roTAi.PA r.urni. 1844. (Jj.. " with -unole.") 



The character's S(>i)arating this genus from its allies are suffi- 

 ciently sc^t forth in the key. One of the se^^en known North Ameri- 

 can species occufs in the eastern Uuit<>(l St;ites and Indiana. 



