176 TAMIL Y II. CARABIDiE. 



bernate and are on the wing in great numbers during the first 

 warm days of spring. They are also very common about electric 

 lights in spring and early summer. 



The following papers treat of this genus and two of those which 

 follow : 



LeConte. — "Notes on the Species of Agonoderus. Bradycellus 

 and Sienolophus inhabiting America North of Mexico." in 

 Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci.. 1868, 373-382. 



LeConte.— 1 1 Synoptic Table/' in Bull. Brook. Ent. Soc. VI, 

 1883. 13. 50. 53. 



Five species of Agonoderus have been taken in Indiana, while 

 two others perhaps occur. 



KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OF AGONODERUS. 



a. Body stouter and more convex; thorax transverse, quadrate-oval: hind 

 angles of thorax strongly rounded : length 6.5-S.5 nun. 

 h. Pale yellow ; two spots on disk of thorax and two stripes on elytra 

 dark; scutellar stria long; one dorsal puncture. 323. lixeola. 

 hi). Dark brownish-yellow or piceous. narrow margin of thorax and 

 broader one of elytra pale; scutellar stria shorter; dorsal punc- 

 tures wanting. inftjscatus. 

 aa. Body more elongate, less convex; thorax scarcely wider than long, more 

 or less distinctly narrowed behind ; elytra with one dorsal puncture. 

 c. Larger. 5.5-7 mm. : pale, elytra with a wide black stripe, divided by 

 the suture ; disk of thorax often with a large dusky spot ; head 

 black. 324. pallipes. 



cc. Smaller. 2,5-4 mm. 



d. Head black : scutellar stria distinct. 



c. Thorax pale, without blackish spot: body beneath wholly or in 

 part dusky. 



f. Basal impressions well marked, with a few coarse punctures ; 

 elytra with a broad ill-defined dusky cloud divided by the 

 sutural interval : thorax dusky beneath. 325. paetiaeius. 

 //. Basal impressions less marked, with few if any punctures; 

 elytra more or less dusky with suture and margin pale: 

 thorax pale beneath. 326. paepeeculus. 



ec. Thorax with a large blackish spot on disk : elytra blackish with 

 suture and margin brownish-yellow. ixdistixctes. 

 eld. Head pale, of the same color as thorax : body beneath yellowish 

 or reddish-brown : scutellar stria short or wanting. 



327. TESTAC El s. 



323 (1059). Agonodebis lixeola Fab.. Ent. Syst.. I. 1795. 155. 



Oblong, convex. Color as given in key ; head with a crescent shaped 

 black spot: elytral dark stripes separated by the sutural interval. Thorax 

 one-fourth broader than long, basal depressions small, finely punctured, hind 

 angles much rounded. Elytra minutely alutaceous: intervals feebly con- 

 vex. Length 7.5 -8.5 mm. 



