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PSYCHE. 



[February iSgfi. 



creamy white; legs black, with the anterior 

 knees, more or less of their tibiae, apical half 

 of middle and hind femora beneath and their 

 tibiae beneath, red. Wings subfuliginous, 

 their veins black. 



Epiitenia odyiieri K^X'wa. sp. n. 



9. Length, 6 mm. Metallic green with 

 the sides of thorax, hind coxae and first 

 abdominal segment beneath, blue or blue 

 green, the whole surface umbilicately punc- 

 tate, clothed with a white pubescence. Fla- 

 gellum beneath rufo-picens; knees honey 



yellow, the tibiae and tarsi dark fuscous, 

 almost black, the hind tibiae behind fimbriate 

 with long stiff bristles. Wings hyaline, the 

 veins blackish, the marginal and post mar- 

 ginal veins of an equal length and fully three 

 times as long as the short stigmal vein. 

 Abdomen conico-ovate one-third longer than 

 the head and thorax united, with lateral 

 carinae. 



Described from one specimen bred from 

 the cells of Odynerus rufobasilaris described 

 above. 



NOTES ON THE WINTER INSECT FAUNA OF VIGO COUNTY, 



INDIANA.— IV. 



BY W. S. BLATCHLEY, INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA. 



As the future articles of this series 

 will deal with the Coleoptera, and as 

 the sandy banks of the old Wabash and 

 Erie Canal furnished a most liberal 

 quota of the winter hiding places for 

 the Carabidae, as well as for the Cole- 

 optera in general, a few words of de- 

 scription of these banks will not be out 

 of place. 



In the greater part of its course 

 through Vigo County, this canal was 

 constructed at high water mark, adjoin- 

 ing the river terraces on the eastern side 

 of the Wabash River; though in but 

 few places is it near the lied of the 

 river, wide bottoms, cidtivated in 

 summer, intervening. 



The tow path was on the river side 

 of the canal and in many places (espe- 

 cially near some large ponds in the 

 bottoms) vast beds of sand have been 

 piled up against it by the annual fresh- 

 ets. On these beds of sand, drift-wood 



from time to time accumidates, beneath 

 which scores of species of Coleoptera 

 find an agreeable summer or winter 

 home. 



To the late Dr. Frederick Stein* of 

 this city and to Mr. H. F. VVickham of 

 Iowa Cit}-, Iowa, I owe many of the 

 identifications of the beetles named in 

 this and future articles. The arrange- 

 ment and nomenclatme followed is that 

 of Henshaw's '-List of the Coleoptera 

 of North America." 



COLEOPTERA. 



Carabidae. 



Among the winter insects occurring 

 in Vigo County no family surpasses the 

 Carabidae in number of species, or in 



* Dr. Stein died in April of last year. He was an 

 entliusiastic student of Coleoptera, and his collection of 

 that order was the largest in Indiana. 



