824 FAMIIil' XL. L.\ M PYRID/i;. 



yellow, the latter with disk red with a narrow median dark stripe; ely- 

 tra brown or piceous, with the suture, narrow side margins and a nar- 

 row stripe on disk pale. Labrum tridentate. Thorax and elytra densely 

 and rather roughly punctured. Tjength 11-15 mm. (Fig. 319.) 



ThroughoiU the State; uur most common fiietly. ^lay 23-Au- 

 gust G. 



Tribe II. PHBNGODINI. 



In this tribe the thorax, though rounded in front, does not cover 

 the head. The eyes are convex, prominent and widely separated; 

 antenna? not approximate, plumose or with fan-like processes in 

 male; middle cox;v contiguous. T-wo genera aic represented in the 

 State. 



KEY TO INDIANA GENEBA OF PHENGODINI. 



a. Prosternum very short ; front flat, labrum large ; elytra short, awl- 

 shaped; tarsi with fourth joint lobed. XIV. Phengodes. 

 aa. Prosternum well developed ; front convex, labrum small ; antemife ser- 

 rate. XV. Tytthonyx. 



XIV Phengodes Illig. 1807. (Gr., "shining. ") 



Medium-sized species, having the head dee])ly and transversely 

 excavated behind the eyes; gular region deeply excavated, the su- 

 tures confluent. One speries is known from the State. 



1569 (4852). Phengodes plumosa Oliv., Ent, II, 1790, 26. 



Elongate, robust, depressed. Dull yellow, finely pubes- 

 cent; head, antennfe, tips of elytra and dorsal surface of 

 abdomen fuscous. Antennre of male feather-like, the third 

 and following joints emitting long flexible branches. Tho- 

 rax more than t«iee as wide as long, almost smooth. Ely- 

 tra one-third the length of abdomen, very widely separated 

 at tips. Length 11-12 mm. (Fig. :!2().) 



%S'G\over)' ^'^^ ^^ Wcbstcr coUection lab.'led '"Ind." Seems 



to be everywhere rare, though Say says: "Not un- 

 common for a short period in autumn when, attracted by candles, 

 they enter tlie house in the evening and lly r.'pcatcdly against the 

 ceiling in their efforts to esi^ape." 



XV Tytthonvx l.ec. 1S,51. ((Jr., " small + claw.") 

 Eyes small, rounded, convex; anleiMue nearly as long as the 

 body, broadly compj^'ssed, strongly sernite. joints triangular, the 

 second but one half as long and one half as wide as third; the 

 outei' joints of male longer, nan(..wer and more prolonged a1 tip 

 than the joints preceding. One species is known. 



