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FAMILY II. CARABID.E. 



*360 (1158). 



Fig. 99. X 6i. (Original.) 



Bbadycellus Kt pe.stris Saj'. Trans. Ainer. Phil. Soc II, l'>23. 

 91 ; ibid. II. 505. 547. 



Oblong, slender. Reddisb-brown. shining; the 

 head and disk of elytra nsually piceous : an- 

 tennae dusky, the two basal joints and legs pale. 

 Thorax wider than long, narrowed behind the 

 middle; basal impressions broad, s^halluw. conise- 

 ly punctured; hind angles distinct but obtuse.' 

 Elytral strife deep: Intervals convex. Length 

 4.5-.5 mm. fFig. 99.) 



Throughout the State : common. Janu- 

 ary 6-Oetrjlier .5. Ciii the wing with the 

 species of Agonodrms in early spring. 



LXXII. Tachtcellus Moraw. 1^62. (Gr.. " s^vift - footed. " > 

 Small oblong brownish or pieeous beetles, differing from allied 

 genera in ha^^ng three .joints of the antennffi smooth. The .joints 

 may not be entirely hairless, but lack the tine pubescence coveriag 

 those which follow. Bi.th the front and middle tai-si of the male.s 

 lia-^e two rows of small scales (sciuamules i beneath; body through- 

 out glabrous : elytra normally striate and with a single dorsal punc- 

 ture. Three species have been taken in Indiana, while a fourth 

 perhaps occurs. They were included ^-ith Bradycdlus by LeConte 

 in his paper cited under Agonodernf. The following is the latest 

 paper on the genus : 



Fall 77. f'.—'-f)n the Affinities of the Genus Taehycellus. " " in 

 -Journ. X. Y. Ent. Soc. XIII. 190.5. 160-17^. 



KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OF TACHYCELLUS. 



". Antenna? with two glabrous joints, the tliird pubescent on apical half: 

 upper surface wholly black. 361. xigeixus. 



(III. Antennae with thref b:i<al .iuints wholly glabrous. 

 h. Hind angles of thorax rectangular. 



c. Thorax wider at base than I'lig. its color pieeous with a very nar- 

 row pale edge. kibbyi. 

 cc. Thorax mjt wider at iiase than long, dull yellow with a large cen- 

 tra] pirenu.s spot. ?.c.2. atbimedii - 

 ?j?). Thorax «'ith hind ani:Ie^ obtuse, its color as in kiihi/i. 



■i<V-'.. BADIIPEXX:^. 



."in (1164). TAniYcELLi s MGRiM s pej.. SjiHi-. Geu.. IV. ISIJS, :',;i'.l. 



(il.lniig. Black, shiniim: upper iiart of tiliia' and first .ioint of antemu- 

 rcildish-.velluw. Thorax abt ut a< wide .i^ lon^'. liroadi-i in front of middle: 

 sidi-- 1 early parallel from a lillle lieliind IIjc- niiddlo lo lia^-; hind anglo- 

 reitaiiguhir ; disl; with (lie front Irauswr^o ini|Mo-.^i.in ili>tinct. -irougly 

 angidalc. Ilie lias.il iinprcJsions linear. di'f|i. sniootli or Mar<oly pundnnil. 

 r.ougth 5.5 i;.5 mm. 



