::)D-BORING BEETLES. 



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side; its surface finely and sijarscly punetMte. Elytra reacbing only tu base 

 of abdomen, obliquely impressed on inner side, finely and densely punctate 

 with larger sc-attered punctures intermingh-d. Length 13-21 mm. 



Putnam County ; rare. June 25. Described from Posey County. 

 The upper surface of the abdomen is sometimes black. 



Tribe IV. EXCYCLOnXI. 

 In this tribe the head is quadrate, sud- 

 denly but not strongly narrowed and con- 

 stricted far behind the eyes so that the neck 

 is very short: eyes finely granulated, 

 obliquely emarginate; antennae 11-jointed, 

 the first five .joints punctured; thorax con- 

 stricted before and behind, wider at base,, 

 tuberculate on sides, scutellum small, tri- 

 angular; elytra elongate, parallel rounded 

 at tips ; legs slender, hind pair longer, first 

 joint of hind tarsi much longer than the 

 others combined and, in Enrijclops, the only 

 one of the three genera ■ occurring in thi' 

 eastern T'nited S^tates, cylindrical. One 

 species, EncijrJop>i candeus Say, green or 

 blue, shining, coarsel.v punctured, length 

 7-8 mm. should be looked for in southern, 

 Indiana, having been taken by Dury at 

 Cincinnati. 



Beliamira scalaris Say. 

 (After Smith in Fifth Rep. U. S. Ent. 

 Coi 



Tribe V. LEPTTRINI. 



This tribe contains numerous species, all possessing the char- 

 acters of Division IV, as given abo\'e, and also having the palpi un- 

 equal, the maxillary elongated, the last joint cylindrical or triangu- 

 lar; neck long; thorax usuallj' wider at base; elytra usually nar- 

 rowed from base, sometimes acute and separated near apex, but more 

 often rounded and separated (Fig. 444 i ; legs slender and never very 

 short. The species occur, for the most part, on flowers, are usually 

 prettily colored and clothed with fine pubescence. The tribe is di- 

 vided into 14 genera, eight of which are known to be represented 

 in Indiana, while members of three others may occur. 



KEY TO INDIA^"A GEXEKA OF LEPTBEINI. 



a. Spurs of hind tibife not terminal, but borne at the base of a deep ex- 

 cavation ; thorax tuberculate at the sides. XL. Toxotus. 

 aa. Spurs of hind tibiae terminal. 



