•29G FA5EILY IX. — S('yd:m3:nii).k. 



slon marked with four small fovese. Elytra nearly three-fourths wider than 

 thorax: the humeral folds rather long and strongly marked, each with a 

 deep fovea at base. Length 1 mm. 



Kiis'jiu.sko County: scarce. June 24. Sifted from moss in tam- 

 arack swamp. 



£. dehilis Casey, deep black, length .7 mm. was described from 

 Detroit. 



II. Pycxophus Casey. 1897. (Gr. "compact.") 



Head large, truncate at base; neck strongly constricted; an- 

 tennse widely sejiarated at base : third joint of maxillary palpi 

 long, the basal half forming a long and slender peduncle. 



.!i74 {lSo4i. Pyc^-QPHrs basus Lee., Proc. Phil. Acad. Xat. Sci.. VI, 18.52, 

 l.o3. 

 Rather stout. Uniform pale reddish-browii, shining, nearly glabrous. 

 Head wider than long, wider than apex of thorax. Anteun;e longer than 

 head and thorax, the joints of club gradually increasing in size. Thorax 

 slightly longer than wide, sides parallel from base to middle, thence con- 

 verging to apex ; disk somewhat flattened and with a small but deep fovea 

 near each hind angle. Elytra twice as wide as thorax, sides broadly and 

 evenly curved; humeral fold short and Ijroad. basal fove.e small and deep. 

 Length l.lJ-l.S mm. 



Lake, Starke. Marshall and ilarion C(iunties: .scarce, ilay 20- 

 December 30. Occiti's in nests of ants and beneath logs in sandy 

 places. 



III. CuxxoPHROx Casey. 1S1:I7. 



A large genus of closely allied species having the thorax coni- 

 cal, without basal fovea; ; body rather stout and inflated ; head mod- 

 erate in size, convex; eyes placed in front of middle; maxillary 

 palpi with third joint elongate and obconic. the fourth small, slen- 

 der and aciculate; femora, especially the front and middle ones, 

 usually strongly club-shaped. Casev has listed 82 species, of which 

 the following have been taken or may occur in Indiana : 



KEY TO IXDTAXA SPECIES OF C0>'X0PHK0X. 



a. Basal joint of hind tarsi not or scarcely longer than second, the first 

 four joints being subetiual ; hind tibia^ of male rarely with a sjiur at 

 apex, 

 b. Antennal club 4-jointed. often gradually formed. 



c. C'lypeus toothed at middle of apical margin, the t(.oth sometimes 

 minute ; length more than 1 mm. 

 (I. Elytral iniliescence long, erect and generally fine. 

 c. Clypeal tooth large or mixlerate and distinct. 

 f. Species innro than l.."i mm. in length. 



