Or> FA;NriLT n. — rAIiABTD.T:. 



^ y" '-''■', rl'MW. I'ANAG.EUs FAxiATis S.iv, Trans. Amer. I'hil. 



Sic. ir. 1^:;:;. 70 : ibirl. II. A'.*\. 



lle.iil ami tlii.rax iwlilisli-hrown : elytra reddish-browu 



Avith a lilaik iiip>-;-haiKl liebiml the middle and anotlier at 



tips: \e-i< and abdomen iii<eou>^. Thorax and elytra imne- 



tnied as in the preceding. Length T.o-S.-!; mm. fFig. 4^. 1 



Fig. 48. Throiighoxit the State; siarce. Januarj' 14-Octo- 



(AfterLeng.) ^^gj, -| 1 1 Sometimes found crawling" along wniidland 

 paths; hibemah's as imago. 



Tril.e II. NOJIIIXI. 



Antennie 8ri^intr from beneath a distinL-t frontal ridsre. the 

 third .joint nearly as lontr as the two following. Head stout, oval, 

 neck broad; labrnm short, broadly emarginate ; mandibles curved, 

 with a feeble tooth on inner edge at middle and a bris-tle-bearintr 

 puncture in th" outer groove. Body pedunculate, seutellum in- 

 visible. Eh-tra sliahtl.v marsrined at base. Hind eoxas contiguous: 

 tarsi not dilated. 



The tribe is represented in southern Europe and the United 

 States by a single sppcics. Xomius pygimms De.j.. an elongate-ob- 

 lona-. chestnut brown or piceous beetle. 7 mm. in length. ha\ing the 

 apex of thorax nearly twice the width of base and the elytra feebly 

 striate-punctate. TVhile its range is given as '"Xew Jerse.v. Canada 

 and Lake Superior, southward and westward to California,"" no 

 verified specimen has been seen from Indiana, though one was in 

 the Stein collection without locality label. It is said to occur tmder 

 stones in moist plai-es and to extide a veiy ill-smellin.s liquid when 

 disturbed. 



Trilie III. JIORIONIM. 



Head suddenly narrowed behind the e\ cs. ueck stout: nientuui 

 (h'eply einanrinate. last .joint of palpi eylindrieal. Elytra feebly 

 iiiaririiied at base, the disk with a single dorsal ptmcture on the 

 apical third of third interval. Tlind cox;v i-ontiirtnuis : front tibia- 

 triangtdar. not spiiiose at the outer apicrd ande : first three .joints 

 of front tarsi slisiluly dilated in the male. 



The tribe is rejires.nted in the Sontheru States by a single spe- 

 cies. Mor'io monilirontis Latr.. eloiieatc. sldning black, 12-1(> mm. 

 in leiiuth, the thorax with deep basal impressions. It lives beneath 

 bark, has been taken by Dury near ( 'incinnati. and very probably 

 occurs in the soniliern third of Indiana. 



