THE HANDSOME EENGES BEETLES. 



*1029 (3187). Mycettna perpulchra Newm, Ent. Mag., V, 1838, 390. 



Oblong. Piceous-black, shining; thorax reddish-yellow, sometimes with 

 a blackish discoidal stripe; elytra each with two reddish-yellow spots, the 

 larger subhumeral. the other snbapical. Male with front and hind tibia? 

 angulate within. Length 1 mm. 



Steuben, Hancock. Vigo and Crawford comities; scarce. May 

 17-December 3. 



IX. Stenotarsus Perty. 1831. (Gr.. "narrow ^ tarsus. ") 



One species, listed as Mycetina testacea Zieg., but evidently be- 

 longing to this genus, lias been taken in the State, while another may 

 occur. 



KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OF STENOTARSUS. 



a. Prosternnm spoon-shaped and prolonged over the mesosternnm ; elytra 

 wholly dull yellow. 1030. testaceus. 



an, Prosternum dilated, not spoon-shaped, not prolonged over the mesoster- 

 nmn ; disk of elytra usually black. hispides. 



*1030 (3189). Stenotarsus testaceus Ziegl., Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 

 II, 1815, 272. 



Elongate-oblong-. Reddish-yellow, shining, sparsely pubescent with pros- 

 trate yellow hairs; head and sides of thorax often paler; club of antennas 

 piceous. Thorax subquadrate. widest before the middle ; hind angles promi- 

 nent, somewhat prolonged and excurved ; disk, as well as that of elytra, 

 finely and sparsely punctate. Length 3.5—1 mm. 



Starke, Vigo. Posey and Crawford counties; scarce, except lo- 

 cally. March 9-December 11. Occurs beneath logs in upland 

 sandy woods. In such a locality I found it on a number of occasions 

 in Vigo County, always beneath the same log and nowhere else. 

 When I first took it the log Avas so large that I had to use great exer- 

 tion to turn it part way over. Returning after ten years' absence 

 I found the same log. reduced to a chunk, easily overturned by one 

 hand, and beneath it I took twenty or more of the beetles. 



S. hispidus Herbst.. length 1-4.5 mm., is recorded from the 

 middle and southern States and has been taken near Cincinnati. 



Family XVIII. EKOTYL1TLE. 



The Pleasixg Fungus Beetles. 



A family of moderate extent, comprising, for the most part, 

 beetles elongate or oval in form, and of medium or small size. Many 

 of them are very prettily bicolored. possessing a red thorax, with 

 black or black and red elytra, or the reverse. A number, however. 



