■rl FAMILY II. — carabidj:. 



entire, the iuuer ones faintly Imprerj^ed at apex, i)unctures fine. Length 

 5 mm. 



Lake, Vigo, Putnam, ^Marion and Po.sey counties ; scarce. April 

 23-October 4^. This, according to Fall, is the form usually known 

 as sibiricuf:. it having been wrongly placed under that name by Le- 

 conte. 



43 ( ). XoTioPHiLUs NOVE 11 STRIATUM Lcc., Ann. Lye. Xat. Hist., IV. 



1^4^. 4.jU. 

 Shorter, more ^^lender. Jletallic bronze, shininu' : tiliiii^ and four liasal 

 joints of antemi;e pale. Thorax as iu scmistriatiis. the sides less sinuate. 

 Elytral alutaeeoiis at tiii. the strise entire, regularly and distinctly punc- 

 tured. The second elytral interspace is wider than in either of our other 

 species and. as a Lonseiiuence, the lateral stiice are more crowded. Length 

 4 mm. 



Southern half of State: fref|iient. ilareh 6-Ootober 0. Prob- 

 ably hibernates as imago. This is the scmistiiatus of Leconte. n-cc. 

 Say. 



VIII. Xebria Latr., 1S02. 



Species of medixira size, having the antennae slender, two-thirds 

 or more the length of body, .joints cylindrical ; maxiUje armed be- 

 neath with bristles ; scutellar stria? of elytra always very distinct. 

 About 24 species are known from the United States. Of these but 

 one has been taken in Indiana, though two others may possibly oc- 

 cur. These three speiies are black and have the elytra truncate at 

 base, the humeri distinct, the third interval with four or five large 

 dorsal punctures. For literatttre see : 



Horn. — "Descriptive Catalogue of the Species of Xchria of the 

 United States" /)( Trans. Amer. Ent. S,,,-.. Ill, 1870, 97-104. 



Horn. — 'Synoptic Table" in Bull. Brook. Entom. Soe., I, 1571. 

 30. 



KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OF NEBKIA. 



a. Sides of elytra suliiiarallel. 



6. Sides of thorax oblique, not sinuate near base: le^'s blaeli. 



SUTURAUS. 



hb. Sides of thorax sinuate near liase: lees brown or picenus. the tibiie 



P'^'^''- SAHLBEBGI. 



aa. Sides of elytra rounded : legs pale yellow. 44. pallipes. 



V. suturalis Lee, in-ll..5 mm., and .V. xaJdhergi Fisch.. 10 mm. 

 in length, belong to the boreal, fauna and rantre from New Hamp- 

 shire westward. They are likely to be found with other members 

 of that fauna in the northern third of Indiana. 



