90iS FAMILY L. SOAllABMmiE. 



1S59 (5000). BupiioKiA fulgida Fab., Syst Ent., 1798, 48. 



Oblong-ova]. Head and thorax usually brilliant green, (he latter mar- 

 gined at the sides with yellow; elytra green, usually with a reddish-brown 

 tinge, sometimes marked with chalk-white spots; abdomen green, the sides 

 with whitish spots ; pygidium with four similar spots on base ; legs red- 

 dish- or brownish-yellow, tinged with green. Entire upper surface sparsely 

 and rather finely punctate ; elytra with only faint traces of costie. Length 

 13-18 mm. 



Throughout the State ; frequent. May 10-September 29. Usu- 

 ally pupates beneath logs in damp places; common in June in the 

 washup along the shore of Lake ^liehigan. Occurs also on flowers. 



E. lierbacca Oliv., length 14-16 mm., occurs in the "lliddle 

 States Region." 



1860 (."lOll). Euphoria inda Liim.. Syst. Nat., Ed. X, 1766, 352. 



Broadly oval. Head and thorax piceous, 

 feebly bronzed, the latter often with yellowish 

 spots; elytra brownish-yellow, mottled with 

 black spots, which often tend to form cross- 

 bands ; beneath piceous, the legs and hind mar- 

 Sins of abdominal segments often paler. Vertex, 

 thorax, pro- and mesosterna, femora and sides 

 cf abdomen usually densely haii-y. Elytra each 

 with two rather broad and feeble costae which 

 „. , unite at apex. Length 13-16 mm. (Fig. 416.) 



Fig. 416. X 2. (After Farbej.) \ f> J 



Throughout the State ; frequent, ilarch 

 20- August 17. On the first warm, sunny days of spring this "bum- 

 ble flower-beetle" comes forth in numbers and flies close to the 

 ground with a loud buzzing noise like that of a bumble-bee, for which 

 it is often mistaken. When captured it defends itself by emitting 

 a strong, pungent chlorine-like odor. A second brood is said to ap- 

 pear in September. The larvae live in rotten wood, beneath chips 

 and other Avoody debris. The adults are often found sucking the 

 .iuices of roastina- ears, peaches, grapes and apples, and sometimes 

 do much damage. 



XXXVIIJ. CKEJiASTCiciirLus Knoch. ISdl. (Or., "hanging-f 



lip.") 



Rather elongate, dull black, coarsely punctured species, known 

 from their allies by the characters given in key, and bv having the 

 outer poi'tion .,r mandibh-s thickened and horn-like; last spiracle 

 near hind margin of the segment ; middle coxa- willmut a ]irotuber- 

 anee l„.tween them. The mouth is peruliarh' constructed, the clv- 

 peus being thickened and turned up, and the inentum much en- 



