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FAMILY II . C A.11ABIM. 



Common throughout the Stale in meadows, 

 cultivated fields, gardens, ete. It is called the 

 "fiery hunter," as it is often seen in daytime on 

 the search for cutworms and other juicy larva?. 

 It is also known to feed upon the young of the 

 Colorado potato beetle. The grubs are called 

 "cutworm lions," as they capture and destroy 

 many of those injurious worms. May 2-July 20. 



Fig. 36. 



Tribe IV. ELAPHRINI. 

 Beetles of small or medium size, blackish or bronze in color, 

 having the eves more or less prominent, antennas rarely longer 

 than head and thorax, with three basal joints glabrous; labrum 

 ,. mandibles stout, concave and with one bnstle bearing 

 puncture on the outer side. Body not pedunculate, scutellum dis- 

 tinct Elytra not or feebly margined at base. Presternum not 

 iro longed behind the cox,, the coxal cavities closed The tribe is 

 composed of three genera, two of which are represented m Indiana. 



KEY TO INDIANA GENERA OV ELAPHEINI. 



o. Elytra not striate, but with prominent impressions or pits; ey^roml- 

 nehf tootb of mention large, emarginate. V. Elaphbls 



„, E, 1 ;:;:: 'striate, with «n tbe sti,e; eyes not pi— , 



tooth of nienturn short, bind at tip. 

 V. Klapukph Fab. 1775. (Or., "light in moving;" i. e„ swift.) 



Bronzed and metallic beetles, similar in form but much smaller 

 than these of the genus CicindeU. They may be found on sunny 

 days running on sand bars and mud flats near streams and lakes 

 and in elou.lv weather hiding under plants and rubbish. Head in 

 our species, wider than thorax, the latter without marginal bristle- 

 hearing puncture. Elytra with rows of large, shallow orbicular 

 mpreslions. Eleven species are known from the United States 

 five of which have been taken in Indiana. For synoptic tables of 

 both this genus and the next, see : 



Cralrb. Trans. Amer. Ent. Soc, V, 1876, 246. 

 Crotch... linll. Brook. Entom. Soc, I, 1878, 6-7. 



KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OF ELAPHEUS. 



„ Thorax sparsely punctate; front tars, of males with four joints uh 

 lated. 



7). Elytra smooth, not punctured. 



