ifj FAMILV n. — CARABIDiE. 



CoiintT. .June 27-Sppteinber 5. As its color harmonizes so closely 

 with that of its resting place, it must be marked down and then 

 kept in view until cldst- enough to capture with the net. It is said 

 to fly to electric light. 



li; (f>4i. I icixDEuv BunvEXTBis Dej.. Siiec., I. iSiri. 102. 

 mB Dark smoky brown, bronzed above: bluisli-tTeen beneath, ab- 



^H il men I'ed : elytial markiuirs consisti];? of apical lunule and 

 ^H humeral, posthiuneral. marginal and two di.?oal dot< : the latter 

 ■H ?i metimes wanting, sometimes united to form a short. <inuate 

 ^ middle band. Head finely striate, m.t hairy. Thorax i?ubr|uad- 

 Fig. 2-5. rate with SI i;ir>e hairs each siile. Elytra faintly punctate. Lenzth 

 afterLeng.),,_-,o „„j. , Fig. i.j. I 



This species has so far been taken in Indiana only on bare spots 

 en the sl'ipes and tops of high hills near Wyandotte Cave. Craw- 

 ford County. Here it is cpite common from June 15 to Septem- 

 ber, and can be readily approached and easily taken with a net. It 

 probably imvcius in like situations in many localities in the siiuthem 

 third of the State. 



Cicinclela inarginipfnnis De.i. has been taken by Duiy on a sand 

 bar of the Little iliami Kiver near Batavia Junction. Ohio. May 

 17. It therefore very probably occurs alone the streams of the 

 southeastern portion of Indiana. 



Family II. ( ARABID.i:. 

 The Ground Beetles. 



This family has more repn-sentatives in Indiana than any other 

 family of Coleoptera. Its members are to be looked for anywhere 

 (in or clrse til the trroiuid. where by day they usually hide beneath 

 whatever cover presents itself. At night they roam about in eager 

 search for anything which will furnish food. All the speiies have 

 liijitr legs and run with great rapidity. V>'hile the inner wines are 

 present in must forms, they seldom attempt to eseape by flieht: 

 though some of the smaller nies ai-e seen flyine in numbers during 

 the first warm days of spring or about electric lights during summer 

 evenines. The principal characters of the family may be briefly 

 diaeiiiised as follows: 



Head narrower than thora.x, direc-ted forward ; mentum deeply 

 emareiuate; maxilkv with the outer b>be destitute of a movable 

 hook at the tip: antennn ll-jointed. filiform, inserted under a 

 frontal ridge h-hind the base of the nuindililis. the joints (except 



