. 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 FIREFLIES OR LIGHTNING BUGS. 813 1541 (4788). Ekos mundus [<ay, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, I, 1835, 155; ibid. II, 633. Resembles the preceding but much smaller and with under side of body red or scarlet; antennae black, the two basal joints scarlet; ventral segments and tarsi often dusky. Length 6 mm. A species of southern range described by Say from Posey County. Taken l)y Bury near Cincinnati; not rep
. 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 FIREFLIES OR LIGHTNING BUGS. 813 1541 (4788). Ekos mundus [<ay, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, I, 1835, 155; ibid. II, 633. Resembles the preceding but much smaller and with under side of body red or scarlet; antennae black, the two basal joints scarlet; ventral segments and tarsi often dusky. Length 6 mm. A species of southern range described by Say from Posey County. Taken l)y Bury near Cincinnati; not represented in the collection at hand. 1542 (4789), Eeos scilptidis Say, loc. eit., 156; ibid. II Elongate, slender, subdepressed. Black or pieeous; thorax reddish-yellow, usually with a blackish spot on disk. Antennre elon- gate, slender, third joint but little shorter than fourth, second minute, about one-third the length of third. Front middle cell of tho- rax quadrate, carinate; hind middle cell nar- row. Elytra each with four strong discal costaj; the lateral edge and sutural line raised; intervals each with a double row of alternating irregular cells. length 5-7 mm. (Fig. 314.) Vigo and Posey counties; scarce. June 3-June 22. Beaten from leaves of hickory and ironweed. Fig. 314. (Original.) 1543 (4790). Ekos humekaus Fab., Syst. Eleut, II, 1801, 111. Resembles thoracicus in color, but distinguished by ba^-ing six cells on thorax, the middle front one with sides indistinct but with a strong central carina; hind middle cell narrow like a channel; second joint of an- tennas more than half as long as third. Length 8-10 mm. Lake, Kosciusko and Posey counties; rare. ^lay 28-June 3. Described by S;iy fi'oni Posey County under the specdfle name ohliquns. 1544 (4791). Ebos tbilineatds Melsh., Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., II, 1845, 303. Elongate-oblong, depressed. Black or pieeous. often with a rusty or reddish-brown tinge; sides of thorax dull yellow. A^'alls of front row of th
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