TprE SH0KT-WIX(TEI1 St'AVEXGER BEETLES. 379 



~-'i' (2144). (Itvprs ATEB Grav., Mon. C-ol. Jlier., ISOG, 166. 



Black, shiniiiir; tibiae, tarsi anil basal bait' 

 of auleiiLue pieeous. Anteiiii:i> slender, reacli- 

 iug middle of thora.x. Head distjnctl.v broad- 

 er than loug. fluely ;uid sparsely puuctale. 

 Thorax longer tban broad, slightly narrower 

 than head: sides nearly straight, rounded 

 into base : disk finely and sparsely punctate. 

 Eh-tra a little wider than thorax, together 



slightly longer than wide, finely and densely ' a l 



punctate, sparsely pubescent. Abdomen slight- r'ig. 159. (After Knobel.) 



ly narrower than elytra, above coarsely and rather closely punctate ou 

 basal half, more finely and sparsely toward apes. Length 15-17..5 mm. 

 iFig. 159, 6.) 



Yigo and Posey counties : rare. ^lay 11-July 5. Occurs be- 

 neath stones and other cover near water. 



XXXIV. Beloxli^chis Xordni. 1S37. (Gr., "a dart-i-to have.'M 



(^ne small black and yellow species having the femora armed be- 

 neath with a row of fine, slender spines, occurs in the State. 



727 (2146). Beloxuchus fobmosus Gray.. Mon. Col. ilicr., 1S06, 72. 



Elongate, slender. Keddish-yellow ; head, thorax and last two seg- 

 ments of abdomen black, shining. Antennae reaching middle of thorax, 

 fuscous, the three basal joints piceous, apical one paler. Head slightly 

 broader than thorax, coarsely and very sparsely punctate and with a length- 

 wise impression between the bases of antennae. Thorax slightly longer than 

 wide, sides nearly straight, rounded into base; disk with a row of five dee;i 

 punctures each side of middle, and with about six others between these 

 and margins. Scutellum piceous. coarsely punctured. Elytra one-half 

 wider and slightly longer than thorax, finely and sparsely punctate. Ab- 

 domen slightly narrower than elytra, sparsely pubescent, the dorsal seg- 

 ments punctured on their basal halves. Length 0.5-7.5 mm. 



Southern half of State ; common. April 17-Xovember 10. Oc- 

 cui-s at maple and other sap. in decaying fungi and carrion, and 

 rarely on flowers. 



XXXY PmLONTHTS Curt. 1830, (Gr.. "a lover of dung.") 



A large group of smaU, slender beetles distinguished from allied 

 iiimera only by the characters given in the generic key. The tho- 

 rax, in the great majority of species, is marked on the middle of the 

 disk with a double row of dorsal punctures, and the number of 

 punctures in these rows is n.-M-d in separating the genus into groups. 



