lib FAIETLT IT. C.^i.-viii.^T.. 



henualc hiuI ari' on I he wiii^' in i;'r(jal iimiibers during; the Hrst 

 warm days of spring. They are also very common about electrii' 

 lights in spring and early summer. 



The following papers treat of this genus and two of those which 

 follow : 



LcContc. — "Notes on the Species of Agonoderus, Brachjcellus 

 and Stenolophiis inhabiting x\nierica North of Slexico," in 

 Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sei., 1868, 373-382. 

 LeCofife.^-" Synoptic Table," iv Bull. Brook. Bnt. Soc., VI, 



1883, 13, 50, 53. 

 Five species of A'joiioderus have been taken in Indiana, while 

 two others perhaps occur. 



KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OF AGONODEEUS. 



a. Body stouter and more conyex ; thorax transverse, quadrate-oval ; hind 

 angles of thorax strongly rounded; length (;.5-s.5 mm. 



b. Pale yellow ; two spots on disk of thorax and two stripes on elytra 



dark ; scutellar stria long ; one dorsal puncture. 323. lineola. 



?j6. Dark brownish-yellow or piceous. narrow margin of thorax and 

 broader one of elytra pale; scutellar stria shorter; dorsal punc- 

 tures wanting. infoscatus. 

 (/a. Body more elongate, less convex ; thorax scarcely wider than long, mure 

 or less distinctly narrowed behind ; elytra with one dorsal puncture. 



c. Larger, 5.5-7 mm. ; pale, elytra with a wide black stripe, divided by 



the suture ; disk of thorax often with a large dusky spot ; head 

 black. 324. pallipes. 



vc. Smaller, 2.5-^ mm. 



d. Head black : scutellar stria distinct. 



c. Thorax ]iale. without blackish spot; body beneath wholly or in 



part dusky. 



/■. Basal impressions well marked, with a lew coarse punctures: 



elytra with a broad ill-defiued dusky cloud divided by the 



sutural interval ; thorax dusky beneath. 32.5. partiahii s. 



//. Basal impvessiuns less marked, with few if any pnnctiu-es: 



elytra more or less dusky with suture and margin pale; 



thorax pale beneath. 32(3. pauperculus. 



ee. Thorax with ,i large blackish spot on disk ; el.vtra blackish with 



suture and margin brnwnish-yelliiw. ixdistinctus. 



(hi. Head pale, of the same color as thorax; body beneath yellowish 



or reddish-brown; scutellar stria short or wanting. 



327. TESTACEIS. 



:i23 (1059). Agoxoderis uxkota Fati.. Ent. Syst.. I. 17'.ir\ tS.'i. 



Olilonj;, convex. Color as given in key; head with a crescent shaped 

 black spot; elytral dark .stripes sejiarated by the sutural interval. Thorax 

 one-fourth broader than long, basal depressions small, finely punctured, hind 

 angles much rounded. Elytra minutely alutaceous; intervals feebly con- 

 vex. Length 7.5-S.n mm. 



