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FAMILY tl. — OAEABTD.Ti:. 



XXXVIII. (iALERiTA Fab. 1801. (L.. "a helmet.") 



Pi^lieseeiit licctles of medium size and graceful form, having the 

 head and elytrn black or bluish-black, the thorax cordiform, red- 

 dish-brown. Head elong-ate-oval, strongly constricted behind ; neck 

 slender; first joint of antenn." elongate. Elytra oval, broadly 

 obliquely truncate behind, finely striate. They occur beneath 

 co\-cr. along fence rows and in open woodlands and are often at- 

 tracted in great numbers by electric lights. Dr. Forbes dissected 

 17 specimens of G. janus and found that 8S per cent of their food 

 consisted of cankerworms and other injurious forms, the canker- 

 ^vorms alone maldng up T)!? per cent. A symiptic tabic of the genus 

 is given by 



Lccoiitc— Bull. Brook, Ent. Soc, II, 1S79. 61. 



Five species of the genus ;ire known from the United States, 

 two of Avhich occur in Indiana. 



KEY TO INDIA N'.\. Sl'IX'TES (IF (;AI.EHIT.\. 



(/. Ileiul beliiiul tlie e,\cs strongl.v romideil ; 1)u1k'siciu-c of elytra uniform, 



obliquely derumbeut. 241'. j.\m ,s. 



aa. Skies of head lou.tjer beliiiul, obli(]ue and less rounded: iiubescenre oi 



elytra erect near tlie sculelluui. 24.'!. r.ii'oi.oi:. 



242 |N.-,1). (iALEiUTA ,1A-Ms V:<b.. ."^.vst. Eleut.. 1, 1S(U. :',i;; Say. II, 44(i. 



Elouiiate-oval. Black, densely clothed with short hairs; lejrs. palpi, 

 thorax and base of nii1eini,-e reddish-brown. Thora.x slightly longer than 

 wide, the margin retlc.xed .it hind angles, which are rectangular, El.rtral 

 striie line, not imnctured ; intervals flat, finely, transversely rugose. Length 

 17-22 mm, 



Southern half of Rtatc: frequent. April I'l-August 14. 



*2-i:i ts.-,:;). (;.\ierita iucot.ok Dniry, Ins., I. ITTti, !U, 



\"ery similar to the preceding. Distinguished by the char- 

 acters given in key and by its nsn.-illy smaller size and 

 snionther elytra. The latter are more often bbu-black than 

 bl.-ick. Length 1 7 21 mm, (Fig. s2. i 



Throughout the State: common, -lanuary 1-Orto- 

 ber 12. A pair were found mating on May '1'^. 



Zuphiuni niiiiricinnnn Dej. has been taken by Dury 

 near Cincinnati, It is a small, slender brown form. 

 living under Mat slmics and runs very rapidly when 

 uncovcvcd. 



Fig, 82. X . 

 (Origiiml.; 



