286 FAMILY VIII. SILPHID2E. 



subhuineral row of punctures; intervals flat, shining, sparsely punctulate. 

 the alternate ones with a few widely distant, coarser punctures. Length 

 2.5 mm. 



Pine. Lake County, and near Clear Lake, Steuben County: 

 scarce. May 2-May 25. A member of the boreal fauna. Resem- 

 bles a small Pallodes pallidas, a common fungus beetle of the family 

 Nitidulida?. 



A. conferta Lee. piceous. elytra paler, length 2.5 mm., is known 

 from Illinois. A. obsoleta Melsh.. reddish-yellow or pale chestnut- 

 brown, length 1.5-2.5 mm., is said to occur from the Atlantic to 

 Colorado. 



IX. Colenis Erichs. 1832. (Gr. ? "knee.") 



- Here belongs one minute pale species having the labruni eniar- 

 ginate; last joint of maxillary palpi cylindrical; antenna? 11- 

 jointed, joints 9-11 forming a loose, oblong club : tarsi 5 11 in 

 both sexes. 



Fig. 143. a, Colenis impunctafa Lee; b, Liodes ganinata Horn; c, Cyrtusn blandissima Zimm.; d, hind leg 

 and middle tibia? of male of same; e, hind leg of C. egtna Lee, male. (After Horn.) 



557 (1781). Colenis impujstctata Lee. Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. SeL, VI. 

 1853, 284. 



Broadly oval, convex, not contractile. Uniform pale reddish-brown, 

 shining. Thorax more than twice as wide as long, much narrowed in front, 

 apex feebly emarginate. surface smooth, hind angles rectangular. Elytra 

 broadly oval, nearly as wide as long ; surface finely transversely strigose. 

 Length 1.5-2 mm. (Fig. 143, a.) 



Throughout the State ; frequent. April 22-December 7. Oc- 

 curs especially in fleshy fungi on beech stumps. 



X. Liodes Latr. 1796. (Gr., "smooth.") 



Small oval or hemispherical beetles having well denned oblique 

 antennal grooves on under surface of head; clypeus slightly pro- 

 longed beyond the front ; labrum usually truncate ; antenna? 11- 

 jointed, joints 7-11 forming an elongate loose club (Fig. 1. No. 6) ; 

 tarsal joints 5-5-4 in males, 5 11 in females. They live in patches 



