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KAMIL\' I.IT. CKlJA.Mm'Cin.i:. 



KEY TO GENERA OF PHYTCECIINI. 



(/. Eyes deeply eiiiargiiiiite hut not divided; tliorax cylindrical. 

 b. AntenmB not pilose; form ehm^ate, slender, cylindrical. 



c. Body above nearly uniform .sjray; tarsal claws feebly toothed or 

 cleft. LXIX. .Mecas. 



<■('. r.()<ly ahove never uniform gray, usually hicolored, with snnill black 

 spots on tliorax; tarsal claws broadly toothed. LXX. Oijekea. 

 hh. Aiitcmia' thickly [lilosc with long black hairs; form shorter, elongate- 

 oblong. LXXIIT. AitPiiioNvciiA. 

 ««. Eyes completely divided, the upiier and lower portions widely sepa- 

 rated ; thorax dilated or tuberculate on the sides. 

 d. Form slender ; head and thorax red, elytra black ; tarsal claws broad- 



Iv toothed. 



Fig. 474. MecuK iiiiirnal.a l^av. 

 (After Smith in Fifth Rep, U. S. 

 Erit, C'oiiiiii.) 



LXXI. Tetrops. 

 <J(I. Form robust ; color red with black spots ; tar- 

 sal claws cleft. LXXII. Tepraopes. 



LXIX. Mecas Lee. 1852. 



Our niciiil)ci-s of this o-enns are slender, 

 hhick species, clothed uith ui'ay piihesceuee. 

 'rh(\v reseiiil)le small t^apcrdas, hut have the 

 front short and suhconvex instead of flat and 

 ((uadrate, and the tarsal claws cleft. Their 

 hahits are, inorcovor, different, as they do not 

 hreed in wood, l)ut in the stems of herhs or 

 weeds. One of the five known species has 

 been taken in the State, while two others may 

 oecnr. 



key to INDIANA SPECIES OF MECAS. 



(/. Eegs black. 



h. Body above uniformly clothed with ash-gray itnbescence; thorax 

 usually with a bare elevation each side of disk ; tarsal claws deeply 

 cleft, the inner portion broad and lobe-like. inornata. 



hh. Body above sparsely clothed witli asli-gr;iy ]Mibcscence; thorax at 

 sides and middle, elytra at suture and sides more densely clothed 

 with yelhwish-wliitc pubesceni-e ; tlior;ix without bare elevations. 



margineeea. 



(/'/. I>egs, or at least tlie femora, red; thorax with four or five slightly ele- 

 v;ited. bare, round spaces. iiOIO. PER(a!.\TA. 



M. iinninihi Say ( Fii:'. -174), Icnuth ^-15 mm., is recorded from 

 Cincinnati, Wisconsin and westwaid : 1/. nnirniiKJIa Lee, length 

 7-S mm., is known fi-om Illinois, Texas and Kansas. 



