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FAMILY XL. LAMPYRID.F. 



1562 (4S27). Photinus con sanguineus Lee, Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci.. 

 V, 1851, 335. 



Elongate, rather slender. Dusky or piceous; thorax yellow, with a 

 black median bar on basal half, this bordered with pinkish on each side; 



elytra with suture and side margins pale, 

 late, with one or two subobsolete carinse. 

 ment dark piceous. Length 8-12.5 mm. 



Porter, Marshall and Kosciusko 

 June 19. 



Surface of elytra finely granu- 

 Female with sixth ventral seg- 



counties ; scarce. June 3- 



1563 (4829). Photinus aedens Lee, Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci.. V, 1851. 



334. 



Elongate, slender. Fuscous or piceous; thorax with side margins and 

 apex pale; elytra with suture and narrow side margins yellowish. An- 

 tennae very slender. Thorax semicircular, base truncate, margins wide, 

 translucent, feebly reflexed. Elytra finely and densely granulate. Length 

 6-11 mm. 



Kosciusko and Posey counties, scarce ; also two Indiana speci- 

 mens in Webster collection. June 22- June 25. 



P. punctulata Lee, fusco-pieeous. thorax dusky with sides 

 dusky, length 10-11.5 mm., is known from Illinois and Kansas. 



1564 (4835). Photinus fyealis Linn., Syst. Nat, Ed. XII, 1785, 644. 



Elongate -oblong, rather 

 robust. Piceous-brown ; thorax 

 with margins dull yellow, the 

 convex disk roseate and with 

 a central black spot. Elytra 

 with suture and narrow side 

 margins pale. Thorax with a 

 short dorsal channel. Male 

 with hind margin of fourth 

 and whole of the succeeding 

 ventral segments yellow ; female with dusky spots at base of fifth segment ; 

 sixth dusky, margined with yellow. Length 10-14 mm. (Pig. 318.) 



Tippecanoe, Madison, Vigo, Marion and Lawrence counties; 

 frequent. June 8-July 29. 



1565 (4836). Photinus maeginellus Lee, Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., V, 



1851, 335. 



Elongate, slender. Pale, dull yellow; disk of thorax roseate without 

 or with only a trace of a black spot ; antennae and legs dusky. Elytra finely 

 granulate and pubescent. Length 6-8 mm. 



Kosciusko, Crawford and Posey counties; scarce. June 2-Au- 

 gust 11. The form here described is the pale variety casta Lec, 

 The typical form is colored similar to scintillans. 



Fig. 318. a, larva; /, e, d. head, under side of segment and leg of 

 same; 6, pupa in its earthen cell; c, beetle. (After Riley.) 



