l;}2f) FAMILY LXII. — ANTIIICID.T:. 



Kosciusko County; rai-c. June 10. Deseriix'd Itoui two speci- 

 mens taken l)y s\veei)in<i' low her1)aiie in dense woods. 



:_'4(J1.' (TSGl). MoKUELLisTK.NA SI I T HKi.i^v llcliu., I'lMc. I'liil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 



XVI, 1SG4, ior>. 



Robust, wedge-shaped. Dense niiifonii Mack, except llie suture, which 

 is very narrowly gray. Lengtli 4..3-r» nun. 



Tippecanoe County; 1're(iuent. .June 21-June 25. Taken In' 

 Wolcott. 



M. discolor Melah., lengtli 3.5—1 mm., occurs in the "^Middle and 

 Southern States," and lias })een recorded from Cincinnati. 



Family LXII. ANTlIICIDyE. 



The Ant-like Flower Beetles. 



Medium or usually small-sized beetles varying much in form but 

 agreeing in having the head drooping and strongly constricted ])e- 

 liind the eyes into an abrupt slendei' neck; thorax narrower than 

 elytra; hind coxa? not proniinent; tarsal claws almost always simple. 

 Some of them hear a striking resemblance to ants, and others are 

 remarkable for a prominent horn on the front of the thorax. They 

 occur for the most part on flowers, though some live in rotten wood, 

 and t)thers in burrows in sandy i)laces near water. None of them 

 are known t(^ be in any way injurious. The name Anthicida^ is 

 from that of the typical genus Aiitliicus, meaning variegated or 

 "like a flower." 



In addition to the characters mentioned, the Anthicidas have the 

 antenna^ nearly filiform, rather long, 11 -jointed, inserted before the 

 eyes at the sides of the front; elytra nninded behind, covering the 

 ahdomen, which has five, rarely four or six, free ventral segments; 

 front coxa' conical, prominent, contiguous, the cavities confluent 

 and (except in Dikutdius) open behind; middle coxa? with dis- 

 tinct trochantins; hind ones transverse, nearly contiguous except in 

 the tril)e Aiilliiciiii : tarsi with the next to last joint usually emargi- 

 nate. 



About 1,150 species ol" Anthicida' are known, 2(55 of which are 

 listed from North America, ( 'asey iiaving descrilnul 138 of them in 

 a single paper. The following is the iM'iiicijial literature treating of 

 these North American forms : 



LrCoiile. — "Synopsis of the Anthicites of the United States," in 

 Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., VI, 1852, 91-10-1. 



