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FAMILY IX. SCYDMiENID^E. 



hi). Smaller, not over 1.7 mm.; femora abruptly clavate; thorax not 

 longer than wide and subglobular ; body stout ; antennae with a 

 strong and gradually formed club. 587. motschulskii. 



aa. Front strongly prolonged between the antennse; elytra not at all im- 

 pressed at base, their pubescence long, sparse, erect and bristling. 

 c. Hind femora not dentate on outer side ; thorax not quite as long as 

 wide ; color pale brownish-yellow. ocheeatus. 

 cc. Hind femora dentate on outer side near the trochanters ; color pale 

 reddish-brown. crubaus. 



E. grossus Lee, dark chestnut brown, is a southern species which 

 has been taken near Cincinnati. 



587 (1850). Eumicrus motschulskii Lee, N. Sp. N. Amer. Col., I, 1863,26. 



Rather stout ; suboval, strongly convex. Dark chest- 

 nut brown, rather thickly clothed with recurved yel- 

 lowish hairs; legs slightly paler. Antennae three-fifths 

 as long as body, ninth joint as long and twice as wide 

 as the two preceding united; tenth still wider; eleventh 

 as long as ninth and tenth together. Thorax ovate, con- 

 vex, widest and rounded in front of middle ; disk with- 

 out punctures, but with two distinct fovese each side near 

 base. Elytra short, broad, very convex, not quite twice 

 as long as and about three-fifths wider than thorax; 

 sparsely but distinctly punctate. Length 1.7 mm. (Fig. 



Fig. 145. X 16. 



(Original.) 14 °- ) 



Southern half of State ; frequent. April 10-October 31. Forty 

 or more specimens were sifted from decaying woody fungi on a 

 maple log near Broad Ripple on the latter date. 



E. ochreatus, and E. cruralis, each 2 mm. in length, were both 

 described by Casey from Central Illinois. 



VII. Acholerops Casey. 1897. 



Narrow-bodied species having the sub -basal foveas of thorax very 

 faint; scutellum wholly wanting. One of the two recognized spe- 

 cies occurs in the State. 



588 (1854). Acholerops zimmeemanni Schaum., Analecta Entom., 1841, 26. 

 Narrowly suboval, strongly convex. Uniform dark reddish-brown, shin- 

 ing. Head wider than long ; eyes placed in front of middle. Antennae one- 

 half as long as body, club gradually and feebly thickened, ninth joint ob- 

 conic, as long and two-thirds as thick as the two preceding united, tenth 

 slightly wider, eleventh still thicker but not as long as ninth and tenth 

 together. Thorax longer than wide, widest and more rounded at apical 

 third, the sides thence oblique and straight to base; disk rather coarsely, 



