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FAMILY X. PSELAPHIDJE. 



B. schaumii Aube. pieeoiB r bIack, length 2.1 mm., is known from 

 Pennsylvania and Illinois. 



016 ( ). Batbisodes caseyi Dury Mss. 



Uniform reddish or chestnut-brown, sparsely clothed with stiff, sub- 

 erect yellowish hairs. Head large, as wide as thorax: vertex strongly 

 swollen, not carinate ; fovea? of occiput very small. Antennae short stout, 

 reaching base of thorax, joints 2 to 10 wider than long, 11 oblong-oval, 

 nearly as long as the three preceding. Thorax as wide as long, median 

 sulcus deep, abbreviated in front, basal fovese. round, deep- Elytra smooth, 

 convex, humeri not prominent. Length 2.5 nun. 



Posey County ; rare. April 26. Taken from beneath ehunk in 

 open sandy woods. Dury lias three or four from Kentucky opposite 

 Cincinnati. 



017 (1902). Batbisodes bipaeius Say. Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci.. IV, 



1824. 98; ibid. II. 235. 

 Reddish-brown, sparsely pubescent. Head slightly wider than long, its 

 margin broad, flat, produced in front : the fovea? small, deep, not pubescent. 

 Antenna? of male half the length of body, joints 2 to S gradually smaller 

 and rounded ; ninth much larger, transverse, toothed on outer side ; tenth 

 still larger, globose; eleventh not as thick, more than twice as long, with a 

 large tooth inside the base : in female the joints are regular, the last one 

 not as long as the two preceding, acute-ovate. Thorax slightly longer than 

 broad, sparsely punctate, the basal fovea small, distinct. Elytra very con- 

 vex, strongly punctured; humeri blunt or rounded. Length 1.4-1.0 mm. 



Posey County; rare. April 18- April 22. 



B. scdhriceps Lee. pieeous. legs and antenna? paler, is said to 

 occur from Pennsylvania to Illinois and Iowa. B. lintaticoVis 

 Aube and B. frontalis Lee. have been recorded from Cincinnati. 

 B. simplex Lee. is a boreal species which has been taken in northern 

 Illinois. 



018 (1903). Batbisodes globosfs Lee. Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist.. "SI. 1S49, 



100. 



Reddish-brown, shining, sparsely and finely pubescent. Head with ver- 

 tex roof -shaped, the crest carinate: foveas small, deep, round, not pubes- 

 cent; margin broad, flat, densely punctate. Antenna* half as long as body, 

 second joint obconical. three to eight globular and of same width as sec- 

 ond ; ninth thicker, wider than long : tenth in male globular, four times 

 as thick as ninth; eleventh narrower than tenth, ovate, acute, obliquely 

 impressed from middle on outer side. Thorax slightly wider than long, 

 median sulcus deep, ending near base in a deep fovea from which a trans- 

 verse groove curves to fovea- on sides. Elytra indistinctly punctulate. one- 

 half longer than thorax, each with three small, rounded fovea? at base: 

 diseal lines short, shallow : humeri tnberenlate. Legs long, thighs clavate. 

 Length 1.8 mm. (Fig. 151, c.) 



