. 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. ::)D-BORING BEETLES. 1045 side; its surface finely and sijarscly punetMte. Elytra reacbing only tu base of abdomen, obliquely impressed on inner side, finely and densely punctate with larger sc-attered punctures intermingh-d. Length 13-21 mm. Putnam County; rare. June 25. Described from Posey County. The upper surface of the abdomen is sometimes black. Tribe IV. EXCYCLOnXI. In this tribe the head is quadrate


. 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. ::)D-BORING BEETLES. 1045 side; its surface finely and sijarscly punetMte. Elytra reacbing only tu base of abdomen, obliquely impressed on inner side, finely and densely punctate with larger sc-attered punctures intermingh-d. Length 13-21 mm. Putnam County; rare. June 25. Described from Posey County. The upper surface of the abdomen is sometimes black. Tribe IV. EXCYCLOnXI. In this tribe the head is quadrate, sud- denly but not strongly narrowed and con- stricted far behind the eyes so that the neck is very short: eyes finely granulated, obliquely emarginate; antennae 11-jointed, the first five .joints punctured; thorax con- stricted before and behind, wider at base,, tuberculate on sides, scutellum small, tri- angular; elytra elongate, parallel rounded at tips; legs slender, hind pair longer, first joint of hind tarsi much longer than the others combined and,in Enrijclops, the only one of the three genera â occurring in thi' eastern T'nited S^tates, cylindrical. One species, EncijrJop>i candeus Say, green or blue, shining, punctured, length 7-8 mm. should be looked for in southern, Indiana, having been taken by Dury at Beliamira scalaris Say. (After Smith in Fifth Rep. U. S. Ent. Coi Tribe V. LEPTTRINI. This tribe contains numerous species, all possessing the char- acters of Division IV, as given abo\'e, and also having the palpi un- equal, the maxillary elongated, the last joint cylindrical or triangu- lar; neck long; thorax usuallj' wider at base; elytra usually nar- rowed from base, sometimes acute and separated near apex, but more often rounded and separated (Fig. 444 i ; legs slender and never very short. The species occur, for the most part, on flowers, are usually prettily colored and clothed with fine pubescence. The tribe is di- vided into 14 g


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