THE GBOTTND BEETLES. 191 



LXXI. Beadycellus Er. 1832. (Gr., " slow + footed.") 



Small brown or piceous bettles known from allied genera by the 

 mentum bearing a rather large acute tooth. The elytra are 

 obliquely but feebly sinuate at tip and the second stride bears a 

 dorsal puncture behind the middle. Two .species have been taken 

 m Indiana, while three others perhaps occur. For literature see 

 above under Agonoderus. 



KEY TO INDIANA .SPECIE.S OF BKADYCBLLUS. 



'(. Form very elongate ; thorax with a deep marginal line, its basal impres- 

 sions long and deep; middle tarsi of male with small scales beneath. 



359. LINEARIS. 



aa. Form much less elongate; thoracic margin narrow; basal impressions 

 short, not deep; middle tarsi of male without scales. 

 6. Hind angles of thorax liroadly rounded, scarcely punctured; length 

 3.2 mm. neglectts. 



66. Hind angles of thorax distinct. 



c. Thorax without punctures near the hind angles; length 5 mm. 



CORDICOI.r.IS. 



cc. Thorax distinctly punctured. 



rf. Basal impressions broad, shallow, strongly punctured ; sides 

 obliquely subsinuate near base; length 4.8 mm. 



360. KUPESTEIS. 



(Id. Basal impressions broad, sparsely punctured ; sides scarcely sin- 

 uate near base ; length 3 mm. tantillus. 



.359 (1154). Bkadycellus linearis Lee, N. Sp. N. Amer. Col., I, 1863, 16. 



Elongate, subdepressed. Dark reddish-brown to piceous, shining, the 

 margins usually paler; antennsB reddish-brown, the two basal joints and 

 legs duM yellow. Eyes very small. Thorax much longer than wide, sides 

 curved in front, sinuate behind the middle; base distinctly narrower thiin 

 apex ; disk with a deep entire median impressed line, a number of coarse 

 punctures near apex and in the basal impressions ; hind angles rectangular. 

 Elytra at base wider than thorax, long and parallel ; striae deep, the scu- 

 tellar one represented by a large puncture ; intervals convex. Length 5- 

 5.5 mm. 



Knox County; rare. April 20. In form of body and general 

 a.ppearance it resembles a small Pterostichus. 



B. neglectus Lee, black or piceous with legs and autennaj pale, 

 and B. cordicollis Lee, black with legs pale, are both boreal species 

 which may occur in northern Indiana. B. tantillus Dej., black or 

 piceon.^ "'ith pale lesjs and antennae, may also occur in the State, 



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