1002 FAMILY L. — SCARAB^EIDyE. 



whence the generic name, meaning "scented skin." On account of 

 this one being usually found' singly it is called the "hermit flower- 

 beetle." 



1866 (5034). OSMODEEMA SCABKA Bcauv., Ins. Af. et Aniei-., 180.5, 58. 



Foi-m of tbe preceding but usually smaller. I'ur- 



V / plish-black, bronzGd. Head of nmle as in crciiilculii. 



\[ a-flS) !/ the clypeus more strongly reflexed in front; of female 



Y|■:^^C/ nearly flat with clypeus narrowly reflexed. Thorax 



J^^^^U.^^ with a rather deep median groove, its surface densely, 



//piiivVMf\ deeply and coarsely punctured. Elytra very rugosely 



■^A^r'M!p'^-'\)K. ^^nd irregularly sculptured. Length 18-25 mm. (Fig. 



fl XI7 f^^ Throughout the State; scarce. May 27-Au- 



Fig. 420. Naturiisize. gust 19. It is noctumal and occurs about or- 

 (.yter Glover.) ch^rds and open woods, the larvaj living in the 



hollows of beech, cherry and apple trees and feeding upon the juices 

 of their rotten wood. Harris speaks of them* as being "whitish, 

 fleshy grubs, with a reddish, hard-shelled head closely resembling 

 the grubs of the common dor-beetle. In the autumn each one 

 makes an oval cell of fragments of wood strongly cemented with a 

 kind of glue ; it goes through its transformations within this cell 

 and comes forth in the beetle form in the month of July." In 

 southern Indiana, as the above dates show, they begin to appear a 

 month earlier. 



XL. (3-NORtMUS Serv. 1825. (G-r., "known.") 



Medium-sized robust beetles, having the thorax broader behind, 

 the base bisinuate ; elytra longer than wide, their tips rounded ; 

 pygidium exposed, similar in the sexes; middle tibia? of female 

 straight, of male more slender and suddenly curved at base. One 

 species is known from North America. 



1867 (5936). G-nokimus maculosir Knoch, Neu. Beytr., 1801, 109. 



Oval, robust. Dull black, rather thickly clothed with long j'ellowish 

 hairs; elytra clay-yellow, Rlabrous, each with three vague, more or less in- 

 terrupted costffi ; the seven to nine oblong elevations or tubercles so formed, 

 shining black, the ones at umbone and near aiiex the larger; pygidium 

 pruinose. Length 12-14 mm. 



Marion County; rare. July 4. One s])ecimen taken by Harry 

 Dietz from the flowers of a tulip tre- {Liriodnidron) . Knavni 

 from New England to Ohio. 



*Iiia. Injur to Veg., 1862, 42. 



