344 FAltlLY XI. STAPHYLIXID.T. 



lowish erect hairs on sides and scattered erect black ones on disk. Elytra 

 less densely and less finely punctured. Seventh segment of abdomen closely 

 punctured above and with an inferior lobe In male. Length 1.2 mm. 



Marion County: rare. ^Nfav 15. Taken from among termites 

 beneath bark. Described from Tennessee 



VIII. BoLiTOCHARA Mannh. ]>:!n. ( Gr.. "fungi ^ to delight in.") 



Rather bri)M(l forms having the antennje short, stout. les.s than 

 half the length of bod>'; abdomen somewhat narrowed toward tip; 

 legs long and sli-mler. 



lUo (2009). BoLiTocn.vRA TRIMACULAT.^ Er.. Gen. Sii. Staph., 1S40, 105. 



Rather stout and broad, subparallel. Dark brown to piceous. shmiug. 

 spai-sely clothed with short, prostrate yellowish haii-s; elytra dull yellow, 

 with the apical half, exiept at suture, and a common rounded basal median 

 s]Kit. dark bro^^-n; lejrs and basal joints of antennse yellow: basal half of ali- 

 (Ininen often tinged with reddish. Th; ra.K subelliptical, more than one-half 

 wider than long, sides rounded into base: disk rather finely and closely 

 punctate and with a rounded impression in front of scutellum. Elytra 

 slightly wider and two-thirds longer than thorax, coarsely, roughly and 

 shallowly punctate. Abdomen a little narrower than elyti'a. coarsely and 

 rather closely punctate l>!ith above and below. Len^^th o-3."i mm. 



Southern two-thirds cf State: scarce. ]\Iareh ■20-Xiivember 5. 

 Taken from beneath debris in damp loealiti^s. 



(Uii i'.i.jOI). Bolitochaea eianchaedi Casey. Ann. X. T. Acad. Sri., VII. 

 1S92. 369. 

 Rather stout, parallel. Head black : thorax piceous. slightly paler along 

 the basal margin ; elytra fuscous, the basal third and often the suture, dull 

 yellow; legs and abdomen reddish-yellow, the last two or three segments 

 of the latter in great part piceous. Thorax three-fourths wider than long, 

 sides broadly roundeil into base, disk finely, densely and somewhat roughly 

 punctate and with a distinct impression on middle of base. Elytra slightly 

 wider and one-half longer than thorax. impresse<l along the suture nu li.isnl 

 half, rather finely and ch sely pimctate. Abdomen distinctly narrnwer than 

 el\'tra. feebly taiieriiig, tiuel.v and densely punctate: fifth dors.il sc^'ment of 

 male cariuate at middle, l-ength li.i :!.2 nun. 



Fulton, ilarion and Putnam counties; fre([ueut. April :^i)-Xo- 

 veniber :2S. Taken by sifting damp vegetable debris. 



Tribe VI. MYRMEI>OXIINI. 



Head not proloiiiicd in a beak in fi'ont ; inner lobe of the maxilkv 

 with its outer side horu-like, its inner side leather-like. Front tarsi 

 with four, middle and liiiul tarsi with five joints. The followiui; 

 genera are known to Ije represented in the State. 



