764 



FAMILY XXXVII. ELATEKIM. 



1)1). 



g. Thorax red with a black stripe on disk. 



1455. SIGNATICOLLIS. 



gg. Thorax piceous with hind angles dull yellow; tips of elytra 

 dull yellow. copei. 

 dd. Color above uniform dull brown or pieeous. 



h. Form elongate, slender, subeylindrical ; elytra with sides par- 

 allel to apical fourth, thence rounded to apex; length 11- 

 12.5 mm. 1456. cylindeifoemis. 



hh. Form shorter, more robust; elytra distinctly attenuate behind 

 the middle; length 9-10 mm. 1457. divaeicatus. 



cc. Third joint of antennae cylindrical, distinctly narrower than fourth ; 

 form robust. 



L Color black, shining ; length 15-23 mm. 1458. ^ethiops. 



it. Color not black ; length 8-12 mm. 



j. Elytra dull yellow with two undulated darker bands; form 

 subdepressed. 1459. hieeoglyphicus. 



jj. Uniform bronzed piceous; form much swollen. 



1460. IN FLATUS. 



Antenna? not distinctly serrate; joints 3 to 10 generally subeylin- 

 drical. 



Jc. Form elongate, slender ; thorax distinctly longer than wide. 

 /. Elytra uniform dull reddish-brown; length 15 or more mm. 



1461. PYEBHOS. 



II. Elytra with alternate narrow stripes of brown and dull yellow ; 

 length S-10.5 mm. 1462. bivittatus. 



kJc. Form oblong, rather robust; thorax as wide as long; color dark 

 chestnut brown. 1463. eotundicollis. 



Joint three of antenna? distinctly shorter and more narrow than joint 

 four. 



m. Elongate, parallel ; uniform chestnut brown, shining. 



1464. SULCICOLLIS. 



mm. Oblong, dilated behind the middle. 



n. Elytra dull yellow, each with a single dusky hooked line on apical 



na lf- 1465. HAMATUS. 



nn. Elytra uniform cupreous or brownish-bronzed. splendens. 



1453 (4427). Coeymbites veenalis Hentz., Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., V, 

 1827, 374. 



Elongate-oblong. Color given in key Antenna? 

 strongly serrate, subpectinate in male, third joint 

 as long as fourth, its outer angle not as much pro- 

 duced. Thorax slightly longer than wide, sides 

 feebly curved, disk densely and finely punctate, a 

 basal median impressed line; hind angles short, 

 divergent, faintly carina te. Elytra strongly at- 

 tenuate on apical third, stria? punctate; intervals 

 flat, minutely punctulate. Length 8-10.5 mm. (Fig. 

 290.) 



Posey County; frequent in spring on a 

 perpendicular loess bank one-half mile south 

 of New Harmony. April 22-April 26. Taken 



a a. 



n 



Fig. 290. X 4. (Original.) 



