. 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. inoo PAAFILY LTI.âCERAJHByCIDiE. KEY TO GENEEA OF PHYTCECIINI. (/. Eyes deeply emai-ginate but not divided; tliorax cylindrical. 6. Antennae not pilose; form elongate, slender, cylindrical. c. Body above nearly uniform gray; tarsal claws feebly toothed or cleft. LXIX. Mecas. cc. Body above never uniform gray, usually bicolored, with small black spots on thorax; tarsal claws broadly toothed. LXX. ( h
. 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. inoo PAAFILY LTI.âCERAJHByCIDiE. KEY TO GENEEA OF PHYTCECIINI. (/. Eyes deeply emai-ginate but not divided; tliorax cylindrical. 6. Antennae not pilose; form elongate, slender, cylindrical. c. Body above nearly uniform gray; tarsal claws feebly toothed or cleft. LXIX. Mecas. cc. Body above never uniform gray, usually bicolored, with small black spots on thorax; tarsal claws broadly toothed. LXX. ( hi). AntemiEe thickly pilose with long black hairs; form shorter, elnngate- Oblong. LXXIir. AMPHIONVfHA. au. Eyes completely divided, the upper and lower portions widely sepa- rated; thorax dilated or tuberculate on the sides. d. Form slender; head and thorax red, elytra black; tarsal claws broad- ly Fig. 474. Mecas inornata Say. (After Smith in Fifth Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm.) LXXI. Tetkops. ihl. Form robust; color red with black spots; tar- sal claws cleft. LXXII. Tetraopes. LXIX. Mecas Lee. 1852. Our members of this genus are slender, blat'k species, clothed with gray pubescence. They resenible small Sapprdas, but have the front short and subconvex instead of flat and quadrate, and the tarsal claws cleft. Their habits are, moreover, different, as they do not breed in wood, but in the stems of herbs or weeds. One of the five known species has been taken in the State, while two others may occur. key to INDIANA SPECIKS OF iri'XAS. ri. Legs black. (). Body above uniformly clothed with ash-gray pubescence; thorax usually with a bare olcvatlon each side cif disk; tarsal claws deeply cleft, the inner portion broad and lobe-like. hh. I'.ody above sparsely clothed with asli-gvay pubescence; thorax at sides and middle, elytra at sutnro and sides more densely clothed with yellowish-while pul)esceiice; without bare elevations. MARGINALIA. lilt. Logs, (IV at leas
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