. 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 METALLIC WOOD-BOEING BEETLES. 789 Ml. Median groove of thorax feeble; ventral segments without lateral smooth spaces, the last one without a submarginal ridge; length mm. pdsilla. aa. Side margins of last ventral segment without teeth. i. lOlytra with more or less distinct costne or elevated lines; disk of tho- rax uneven. ;'. Color above dark bronze; tooth of front femur serrulate. 1503. SEX-SIGNA
. 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 METALLIC WOOD-BOEING BEETLES. 789 Ml. Median groove of thorax feeble; ventral segments without lateral smooth spaces, the last one without a submarginal ridge; length mm. pdsilla. aa. Side margins of last ventral segment without teeth. i. lOlytra with more or less distinct costne or elevated lines; disk of tho- rax uneven. ;'. Color above dark bronze; tooth of front femur serrulate. 1503. SEX-SIGNATA. ij. Color violaceous or coppery; tooth of front femur not serrulate. 1504. AZDBEA. a. Elytra without trace of eostse; thorax one-half wider than long. 1505. SCITULA. C. debilis Lee, dark brownish-bronze, sides of thorax cupreous, length 5-8 mm., is l?nown from Ohio and Texas. 1499 (10,071). Chkysobotpiris pukpubeovittata Horn, Trans. Am. Ent. Soc, XIII, ISSO, 76. Jloderately elongate, feebly depressed. Bright blue or green, varying to violet or coppery bronze; elytra each with a moderately broad purple black stripe, reaching from humerus nearly to tip, indistinct on the violet or bronze forms. Third joint of autenniB very little longer than fourth. Clypeus broadly triangularly emarginate, the notch oval at bottom, curved on each side. Thorax one-half wider than long, sides nearly straight, sur- face sparsely punctate at middle, more densely and slightly strigose near the sides. Elytra a little wider than thorax, parallel, margins rather coarsely serrate, tips obtuse; surface with only the usual basal fovea and a depres- sion between the humeri; rather finely, sparsely and evenly punctate. Length mm. Horn's types came from "Indiana, Illinois and Texas," no spe- cial location indicated. I have not seen examples from the State. 1500 (4639). CiiEYSOBOTHBis FEMOBATA Fab., Syst. Eleut. II, 1798, 208. Oblong or elongate-oblong, subdepressed. Color usually dark br
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