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I?AiIILT X. PSELAPHID.E. 



B. pnnctiroUis Lee, black with riist-red elyti-a, legs and an- 

 tennae, length 1.4 mm., is recorded as occurring in the "region east 

 of the Mississippi Eiver." B. carporalis Casey, length 1.7 mm., 

 ■nas described from ^Michigan and Canada. B. propinqiia Lee.. 

 piceous-black, elytra dark blood-red, length 1.4 inm., is a boreal spe- 

 cies which probably inhabits northern Indiana. (Fig. 150, d.) 



Eupsenius glaber Lee, yellow, without pubescence or punctures, 

 length 1 mm., is a southern species which may occur in the Ohio 

 River counties. 



Anchylarthron {Yerticivofus) cornutus Brend., dark yellow, 

 faintly punctured, sparsely pubescent, is recorded from Ohio and 

 Iowa. 



Fig. 151. u, Battisodes iojue; 6, Batrisodes ferox; c, Batrisodes globosus- d, Batrisodes spretus. AH highhf 

 magnified. (After Brendel and Wickham.) 



XIV. Batrisodes Reitt. 1S81. (Gr., "Batrisus-hlike.") 



A large genus of subeylindrical, rather narrow, elongate spe- 

 cies, haAdng the head elongate-oblong, with two f ovese connected by 

 a curved groove on vertex ; antennae with a three- jointed club ; last 

 joint of maxillary palpi fusiform, more convex on the outer side; 

 thorax with t"^^•o or three longitudinal grooves and a transverse 

 curved groove connecting the three basal foveie ; elytra very convex, 

 their discal lines confined to basal half; legs long, femora clavate. 

 The species which have been taken or perhaps occur in the State 

 may be separated into two groups as follows : 



KEY TO GBOUPS OF I^JDIANA BATRISODES. 



u. Hind tibise without a terminiil sijur; elytra each with two foveas at base. 



Group A. 



aa. Hiud tibire with a long terminal spur ; elytra each with three fovea? at 



base. Group B. 



