1286 FAMILY LVIII. — MEl.ANDRYID.E. 



;ilntaceinis. aliiKist snioulli uv w itli a IVw imiietures near the base. Elytra 

 as ill rcsjilnidciis. Length 6.5-8 mm. 



Southern two-thirds of State; frequent. May 24-July 10. 

 Beaten from oak and other foliage. 



Family LVIil. I\IELANDRyiD.E. 



Tpie ]\1eijAxdryid Bark Beetles. 



This group eomjn-ises ahout 70 knovn North American species, 

 varying nmch in form and size, though usually elongate and loosely 

 jointed, with the thorax margined at sides, broad behind and often 

 marked with two basal impressions. They occur lieneath l)ark or 

 in dry. fungi and are black or brown in color, often thickly clothed 

 with fine silken hair, only a few species being marked with paler 

 s})ots or bars. The larva^ are slender, cylindrical in form and occur 

 in the same places as the adults. The name is derived from that of 

 the typical genus Mclandrija, meaniug "blacks oak or tree," and 

 was so called because the insects live chiefly under the bark of trees. 



In addition to the characters above mentioned, the Melandryidte 

 have the maxillary palpi 4-jointed, usually long, more or less en- 

 larged in the form of saw-teeth, the last joint being the longest and 

 hatchet-shaped; head usually deflexed, rarely constricted behind the 

 eyes, the latter emarginate or entire and rather coarsely granu- 

 lated ; antenna? 11-jointed, usually filiform; thorax in most genera 

 as wide behind as the base of elytra, which are rounded at tips and 

 cover the abdomen, the latter with five free ventral segments ; front 

 coxa? large, oval, the cavities open behind ; middle coxa? with dis- 

 tinct trochantins; hind coxa* contiguous or nearly so; first joint of 

 hind tarsi always much elongated; tarsal claws variable in the 

 tribes. 



No paper dealing with the North American species of the family 

 as a whole has been ])ublished, only isolated genera having been 

 treated from time to time. These, as far as known to me, are as 

 follows : 



LeConfe. — "Synoptic Table of TTallomenus, " in Proc. Amer. 

 Phil. Soc, XVII, 1878, 619. 



Horn. — "Notes on the Mycterida' and other TIeteromera, " i)i 

 Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, VII, 1879, 336-389. 



Horn. — "Miscellaneous Coleopterous Studies," in Trans. Amer. 

 Ent. Soc. XV, 1888, 32-44. (\)ntains a tal)le of the tribes 

 composing the family and s\nopses of several of the genera. 



Casfjf. — "Review of the Tril)e Tetratomini," in Journ. N. Y. 

 Ent. Soc, VIII, 1900, 166-172. 



