. 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 SHORT-WINGED SCAVEXGEE BEETLES. 465 B. idtidicoUis Lee, 3 mm. in length, is recorded from New York, IMiihigan and Missouri. Group C. Small or medium sized forms having the side margin of thorax acute; prosternal sutures straight; mandibles with two acute teeth on the inner side; fissure of front eoxal cavities open and large. KEY TO IXDIANA SPECIES OF GSOUP C. a. Head and. thorax finely granulate, the (r
. 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 SHORT-WINGED SCAVEXGEE BEETLES. 465 B. idtidicoUis Lee, 3 mm. in length, is recorded from New York, IMiihigan and Missouri. Group C. Small or medium sized forms having the side margin of thorax acute; prosternal sutures straight; mandibles with two acute teeth on the inner side; fissure of front eoxal cavities open and large. KEY TO IXDIANA SPECIES OF GSOUP C. a. Head and. thorax finely granulate, the (rornier flattened. 6. Size larger, mm.; median fovea of head very large; elytra red- dish-brown, fuscous near scutellum. 896. boeealis. 66. Size smaller, not over 4 mm. c. Head not punctate; elytra piceous; length mm. 897. STABILIS. cr. Head punctate; elytra reddish-brown. <L Thorax with hind angles distinct, its disk less densely granu- late; tip of abdomen darker than base. 8'.)S. (Id. Thorax with hind angles indistinct, rounded, its disk vei-y dense- ly granulate; abdomen black throughout. 890. cokfusus. <i(i. Head and thorax polished, the former convex, tlie latter \^ithout hind angles; piceous, elytra dull yellow, the suture fuscous. 900. EMAKGINATUS. 896 ( ). Bledius borealis sp. nov. , robust, subdepressed. Black, shin- ing; legs and elj^tra chestnut brown, the latter fuscous at middle of base and for a short dis- tance along the suture; antenn;e dusky tfiward apex, slender. Plead much narrower than tho- rax, very finely granulate, coarsely and sparsely ])unctato, the median fovea large and deep, the suture distinct. Thorax at apex slightly wider than long, sides straight and parallel for two- thirds their length, thence rapidly converging to base, the latter one-half as wide as apex; disk convex, finely and densely granulate, coarsely and sparsely punctate, smooth along the middle and on apical third, median line fine; hind an- gles
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