]34S PAMILV LXllI. — PYUOCaiROID.i:. 



2rill?, (TO'.tOj. ISCHALIA coSTATA LfC. Xew Sp. X. Am. C<i\.. I, ISIJC, -142. 



Oval, subdeiiressed. Dull bi-ownisb-yello\v ; head, alidomen and an- 

 tenna?, except the last two joints, brownish-fuscous; elytra dusky with a 

 long stripe on side and tips pale. Thorax bell-shaped, without punctures. 

 sides thickened and reflexed; hind angles acute; disk with a strong median 

 carina ending in a point at the base. Elytra elongate-oval, very coarsely 

 punctured ; each with a high ridge extending from huraerns nearly to tips 

 and another, much feebler, very near the margin and reachiuK from near 

 the base to the tip. Length 4.r,-5 mm. 



]\rarshall Comity; rare. IsIrx 3. One speeimeii from deeaA'inff 

 Cottonwood. 



II. Pyrochroa GteofE. 17(54. (Gr., "fire -i- color.") 



Pour .siieeios of large bbick and yellow forms belong here. Two 

 of the four occur in the State. 



li.">ii4 (7001). Pykocheoa FL.ABELLATA Fab., Eut. Svst. Supp.. 1 708. II. lOri. 

 Elongate, subdepressed. Reddish-yellow; nntemla^ except the two basal 

 joints, piceous ; elytra Idack, sparsely clothed with short, subereet pubes- 

 cence. Thorax twice as wide as loug, distinctly wider than head; sides 

 and angles rounded, disk smooth, with a broad median impression at base. 

 Elytra distinctly wider behind the middle, finely and densely granulate- 

 punctate. Male with head broadly concave Iietween the eyes and antennse 

 with joints 5 to 10 more strongly i)ectinate than in female. Length l.'i- 

 17 mm. 



Throughout the State, frequent in the southern countie.? ; much 

 less so northward. -Tune 2-July 7. Occurs on foliage, especially 

 that of ironwood, in open woodland; also often beneath chips and 

 bark. A half dozen specimens were, on one occasion, found feeding 

 on a pungent, sourish sap which was exuding from a crevice in a 

 white oak stiunp. 



l^riii." (70'.il:). I'vrochkoa fi:moraiis Lcc.. I'roc. Phil. Ar.-id. Nat. Sci., VII, 

 Is.Vi. 1274. 

 Resembles the iireceding in form and color except that the under sur- 

 face, palpi, all the tilii.-i- and tarsi and jiarl i.t mid<lle and hind femora are 

 blackish. Tliorax much narrower than in fluhclhtta, scanely wider than 

 head. Male with a very deep double fovea lictwecn the eyes and with the 

 branches of anteunal joints much lon-cr and more slender. Females with 

 a broad, shallow excavation between the eyes and the antenuie about as in 

 the males of flahrllatii. I^iij;th 14-l(i.."i mm. 



:Marion. Crawford and Perry counties; scarce. :\Iay 14-June 5. 

 The elytra are much more .shining and less rough than in flahcUata. 



