48 FA^riLY II. — rARABin.ii;. 



Common throughout the State in meadows, 

 cultivated fields. >;ardens, etc. It is called the 

 "fiery hunter," as it is often seen in daytime on 

 the search for cutworms and other juicy larva?. 

 It is also known to feed upon the young of the 

 Colorado potato beetle The grubs are called 

 "cutworm lions.'' as they capture and destroy 

 many of those injurious worms, ilay 2-July 20. 



Fig. 36. 



Tribe IV. ELAPHRINI. 



Beetles of small or medium size, blackish or bronze in color, 

 having the eyes more or less prominent, antenna? rarely longer 

 than head and thorax, with three basal joints glabrous; labrum 

 truncate; mandibles stout, concave and with one bristle-bearing 

 puncture on the outer side. Body not pedunculate, scutellum dis- 

 tinct. Elytra not or feebly margined at base. Prosternum not 

 prolonged )iehind the coxn'. the coxal cavities dosed. The tribe is 

 ( omposed of three genera, two of which are represented in Indiana. 



KKY TO IXDIAX.V GENERA OF ELAPHKIXI. 



0. Elytra not striate, but witli prominent impressions or pits : e.ves promi- 

 nent; tootli of mentum large, emarginate. Y. Elaphrus, 

 aa. El.vtra striate, with small pits beetweeu tlie strife; e.ves not prominent; 

 tootli of mentum short, bifld at tip. VI, Blethisa. 



V EijAPhrt's Fab. 1773. (Or,, "light in moving;" i. e., swift.) 



Bronzed and metallic beetles, similar in form but nuich smaller 

 than these of the genus Ciciiidela. They may be foiuid on sunny 

 days running on sand bars and mud flats near streams and lakes, 

 and in cloudy weather hiding under plants and rubbish. Head, in 

 our species, wider than thorax, the latter without marginal bristle- 

 bearing puncture. Elytra with rows of large, shallow, orbicular 

 impressions. Eleven species are known from the United States, 

 five of which have been taken in Indiana. For s.Mioptic tables of 

 both this genus and the next, see : 



Cro^c/f,— Trans, Amer, Ent. Soc., V. 1876. 246. 



Crotch. — Bull. Brook. Entom. Soc, 1. 1878, 6-7, 



KEY TO IXDIAXA SPIA'IES OF EtAPlIUrs. 



II. Thorax sparsely punctate; front tarsi of males with Umv .ioints di- 

 lated. 

 h. Elytra smnufh. not punctured. 



