66 FAMILY II. CARABTDJE. . 



*73 (296). Panag.eus fasciatus Say, Trans. Amer. Phil. 

 Soc, II, 182^, 70: ibid. II, 490. 

 Head and thorax reddish-brown. ; elytra reddish-brown 

 with a black cross-band behind the middle and another at 

 tips ; legs and abdomen piceous. Thorax and elytra punc- 

 tured as in the preceding. Length 7.5-8.5 mm. (Fig. 48.) 



Throughout the State; scarce. January 14-Octo- 

 (AfterLeng.) ^er 10. Sometimes found crawling along woodland 

 paths ; hibernates as imago. 



Tribe II. NOMIINI. 



Antennas arising from beneath a distinct frontal ridge, the 

 third joint nearly as long as the two following. Head stout, oval, 

 neck broad ; labrum short, broadly emarginate ; mandibles curved, 

 with a feeble tooth on inner edge at middle and a bristle-bearing 

 puncture in the outer groove. Body pedunculate, scutellum in- 

 visible. Elytra slightly margined at base. Hind coxa- contiguous ; 

 tarsi not dilated. 



The tribe is represented in southern Europe and the United 

 States by a single species, Nomius pygmmus Dej., an elongate-ob- 

 long, chestnut brown or piceous beetle, 7 mm. in length, having the 

 apex of thorax nearly twice the width of base and the elytra feebly 

 striate-punctate. "While its range is given as "New Jersey, Canada 

 and Lake Superior, southward and westward to California," no 

 verified specimen has been seen from Indiana, though one was in 

 the Stein collection without locality label. It is said to occur under 

 stones in moist places and to exude a very ill-smelling liquid when 

 disturbed. 



Tribe III. MORIONINT. 



Head suddenly narrowed behind the eyes, neck stout ; mentum 

 deeply emarginate, last joint of palpi cylindrical. Elytra feebly 

 margined at base, the disk with a single dorsal puncture on the 

 apical third of third interval. Hind coxa? contiguous ; front tibia? 

 triangular, not spinose at the outer apical angle: first three joints 

 of front tarsi slightly dilated in the male. 



The tribe is represented in the Southern States by a single spe- 

 cies, Morio monilicornis Latr., elongate, shining black, 12-16 mm. 

 in length, the thorax with deep basal impressions. It lives beneath 

 bark, has been taken by Dury near Cincinnati, and very probably 

 occurs in the southern third of Indiana. 



