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NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



Description. Length about V% inch ; head yellowish ; eyes black ; 

 thorax longer than wide, cylindric, black ; wing covers shorter than the 

 abdomen, not meeting at the suture and narrowed to the rounded tip ; 

 densely punctured and with a large yellowish spot extending from the base 

 nearly to the middle ; legs yellowish. 



Habits. This predaceous insect is undoubtedly beneficial and has a 

 wide distribution in the northeastern United States, having been recorded 

 from the vicinity of Buffalo N. Y., southwestern Pennsylvania, various 

 localities in New Jersey and from the District of Columbia. 



Hydnocera subaenea Spin. This species was beaten in June from both 

 pine and scrub oak at Karner. 



Paratenetus punctatus Sol. 



A small, brownish black beetle about yi inch long, occurs among dead leaves and 

 also in nests of tent caterpillars. 



This small beetle is rather stout, with a dark brown coarsely punctured 

 head and thorax, coarsely granulated eyes, the thorax with its lateral mar- 

 gins irregularly serrate. The wing covers have rather large, 

 almost confluent punctures and are ornamented with a some- 

 what coarse pubescence. This species was met with in early 

 June 1902 at Kenwood N. Y., where it was present in consider- 

 able numbers in nests of the appletree tent caterpillar, M a 1 a- 



Fig. 160 Parate- . t^l t 11 r 1* 



netus punc- cosoiTia a in e r i c a ii a rabr. It presumably was feeding on 



tatus, enlarged . , .... - II *^1L 



(original! the trass and cast skins in the nests, particularly as it has been 



recorded by Dr Hamilton, as abundant on dead leaves on bushes. Dr Horn 

 records it from the Middle and Eastern States. It has been listed by Ulke, 

 from the District of Columbia, who also states that it is very common on 

 dried leaves. Dury records it from Ohio, Smith from several New Jersey 

 localities and Staten Island, and it has been listed by Zesch and Reinecke, 

 from the vicinity of Buffalo. 



