TIIK VARIEGATED MUD-IX)ViX{i 13EETI-ES. 



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].•;()-, ( ), Heteeocbex?s brunneus Jlelsh:, Proe. Phi]. Acad. Nat. Sei., 



II, 1844. 99. 

 Oblong, moderately convex. Piceous, slightly shining; elytra with the 

 usual three sinuous bands of dull yello\y, often broken into siiots, some- 

 times scarcely distinct; the front band usually with a dash projected for- 

 ward from the middle; the hind one usually forming two rounded spots 

 near apex but not touching margin ; body beneath entirely piceous. Ely- 

 tra more distinctly substriate than in the other species. Length .3-4 mm. 



Frequent about the lakes of northern Indiana ; elsewhere taken 

 (iMJy in ]\[arion and Lawrence counties. 'Slay 11-December 7. 



H. schn-arzl Horn, is known from Pennsylvania, Lake Superior 

 and Texas. (Fig. 256, I.) 



1.306 (3965). Hbteeocebus collakis Kies., Eevis. Linn. Ent., Y, 1851, 292. 

 Oblong, moderately convex. Dull sooty brown or piceous, clothed with 

 brownish hair ; sides of thorax pale ; elytra each with an indistinct spot 

 near scutellum and U\o sinuous bands, often more or less interrupted and 

 sometimes indistinct, yellow ; body beneath piceous, sides and apex of ab- 

 domen yellowish ; legs entirely reddish-yellow. Tliovax twice as wide as 

 long, sides and base curved, the latter bisinuate. Length 2.5^ mm. (Fig. 

 255, 6 and c.) 



Throughout the State; frequent. June ll-August 17. 



Fig. 2.56. u. H. iThlia, female; h, H. schu-arzi, female; c, H. auromkans; d, H. pusiUus. (Ai\et Hon'.) 



1.307 (39G0). Hetekocebcs TKtSTis Mann., Bull. Mosc, III, 1853, 218. 



Oblong, subdepressed. Piceous, sparsely clothed with short, brownish 

 Ijubescence ; sides of thorax indistinctly paler ; elytra with the side margins 

 entirely but nan'owly pale, the usual sinuous bands broken into short longi- 

 tudinal lines as follows : an oblique stripe on each side of scutellum, on each 

 side of this one-third from base a short stripe; behind this near middle a 

 pair of oblong spots, and another pair on apical fourth; beneath piceous, 

 the sides of abdomen narrowly pale. Elytra vaguely substriate, epipleura 

 pale. Length 3.5^ mm. (Fig. 256, a.) 



Lake, Starke and Kosciusko counties; scarce. July 18-. Vu- 

 o-iist 25. 



