594 FAMILY XXIV. DERMESTID.E. 



Throughout the State; scarce. May 11 -July 30. Resembles ' 

 the preceding but usually smaller. Readily distinguished by the 

 emarginate eyes. 



1133 ( ). Teogodeema obsolescens Casey, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc, VIII, 



1900. 154. 



Narrower and more elongate than inclusion. Head, thorax and under 

 surface dull black or piceous: elytra brownish with a faint dull yellow 

 band bearing gray pubescence near base and another near apex ; also a 

 spot of similar pubescence on each at middle near suture and a second on 

 side slightly behind the middle. Thorax twice as broad as long, its sur- 

 face, as well as that of elytra, very finely and rugosely punctate. Length 

 2-3 mm. 



Lawrence County; scarce. May 11. Beaten from flowers of 

 red haAW Crataegus. 



VI. Cryptorhopalum Guer. 1838. (Gr., ' 'hidden + club. ") 



Small black or piceous, sparsely pubescent species having the 

 antenna! club 2-jointed, the deep grooves beneath the margin of 

 the thorax; prosternum covering all the mouth parts except the 

 labrum, its process with broad tip widely dividing the mesosternum. 



1134 (3449). Cryptorhopalum h.emorrhoidale Lee, Ann. Lyc. Nat. Hist., 



I, 1824. 170. 



Elongate-oval, moderately convex. Head black ; thorax and elytra dark 

 reddish-brown or piceous, the latter with apical third dull yellow and with 

 two transverse bands of short, rather sparse yellow hairs. Head coarsely 

 and densely, thorax more finely, punctate ; the latter with pale hairs on the 

 sides and basal lobe. Beneath, black with long, sparse yellow pubescence. 

 Joints of antennal club of male subequal, oval, together twice as long as 

 the preceding joints united. Length 2-2.5 mm. 



Tippecanoe, Marion. Owen. Vigo and Posey counties; frequent. 

 May 3-June 23. Taken on flowers of the panieled cornel or dog- 

 wood, Cornus candidissima Marsh. 



1135 (3452). Cbyptobhopalcm triste Lee, Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 



VII, 1854, 111. 



Rather narrowly oval, subconvex. Uniform black or piceous, clothed 

 with sparse yellowish, semi-erect pubescence ; antenna? reddish-brown to 

 piceous. Thorax finely and very densely punctured, the lobe at middle of 

 base narrow, truncate; hind angles acute. Elytra more coarsely and less 

 densely punctured. Antennal club of male of two unequal joints, the ter- 

 minal one being only half as long as the preceding. Length 2-3 mm. 



Throughout the State; common. April 27-September 19. Oc- 

 curs in spring on the flowers of red haw. yellow puccoon and other 

 plants, and on those of goldenrod in autumn. Whenever the plant 



