. An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana : with bibliography and descriptions of new species . Beetles. THE lj.\.\Ih;i,iaCOK-\ BEETLES 917. IV. ;:us :Sliu:heay. IslO, (Gr., "light bearer.'') Robust, brilliantly colored the males of our species with head armed with a horn; tii-st joint of antennal club hollowed out to receive the others; front tarsi of males wholly absent; those of fe- males present, but ^â "ry small ;ind slendi r. Two species occur in Indiana. 1732 (.5452). Phax_ei;;
. An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana : with bibliography and descriptions of new species . Beetles. THE lj.\.\Ih;i,iaCOK-\ BEETLES 917. IV. ;:us :Sliu:heay. IslO, (Gr., "light bearer.'') Robust, brilliantly colored the males of our species with head armed with a horn; tii-st joint of antennal club hollowed out to receive the others; front tarsi of males wholly absent; those of fe- males present, but ^â "ry small ;ind slendi r. Two species occur in Indiana. 1732 (.5452). Phax_ei;; cabxifex Linn., Xat., I, nuT. ."4r,. oval, somewhat flattened above. Head bronzed; thorax bright cupreous; elytra green, often tinged with bluish. Clypeus entire, armed in male with a long curved horn, in female with a short blunt tubercle. Thorax of male with d!slec., Journ. Phil. Acad. Xat I. Ser. 2. 1S47. So. Form of cantifex. Uniform coppery above; piceous, feebly bronzed be- neath; palpi, stem of antennte and tarsi reddish-brown; club of antennte darker. Clj-peus rounded, margin elevated: vertex in female transversely elevated, in male armed with a short, compressed acute horn. Thorax of male with disk flattened and triangular, finely scabrous: sides deeply sinu- ate near base, hind angles obtuse; in female more convex, with a transverse elevation near aiiex, disk with small, triangular, scale-like granules and with a median impressiuu on basal half. Elytra deeply striate, the striae dilated at base: intervals strongly elevated, minutely and sparsely punc- tate. Length 15-1 s mm. IMoiiroe : rare. -June 9. .V single female collected by ]Max ElHs. Described from St. Louis, ilissouri. After describing this form as distinct. Dr. LeConte in 1863 placed it as a variety of triangularis Say. In this he was followed by Blanchard. Chas. W. Leng. to whom the specimen was sent for identification, takes the ground that the original name tom ns shoul
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