. 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. 000 FAMILY XLIV. BOSTRICTIID^^. late. Elytra with small granules arranged in a network of lines, tbe spaces between them smooth, their summits with pale brown hairs. Length 4- mm. Southern half of State; common, itareh 9-Deeember 21. Hi- bernates. Occurs on woody fungi and beneath baric of trees and shrubs; also at maple sap in spring. II. Dufts. 1825. (Gr., "harm + \;) Cylindric
. 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. 000 FAMILY XLIV. BOSTRICTIID^^. late. Elytra with small granules arranged in a network of lines, tbe spaces between them smooth, their summits with pale brown hairs. Length 4- mm. Southern half of State; common, itareh 9-Deeember 21. Hi- bernates. Occurs on woody fungi and beneath baric of trees and shrubs; also at maple sap in spring. II. Dufts. 1825. (Gr., "harm + \;) Cylindrical beetles having the head completely concealed from above by the thorax, which is truncate in front, with the apical half covered with small tubercles; elytra obliquely truncate behind, their surface punctate. One of the elovc^n species occurs in the eastern United States and Indiana. 1686 (5339). Sinoxylon basilaee Say, .Touni. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., Ill, ]R2:!, 121 ; ibid. II, 1S1. Cylindrical. Black; elytra dull red- dish-yellow on basal third. Antennte 10-jolnted; last two .loints of maxillary palpi equal. Thorax very convex, slop- ing downward on apical half, angles rounded; surface densely punctate, and with numerous small tubercles in front. Elytra bent downward nearly at right Kg. 349. a, larva; 6, pupa; c, beetle. angles On apical fourth, with three tu- (After iiey.) bercles on each side of the declivity, the latter coarsely punctured. Length ;-i! mm. (Fig. 349.) Payette, Lawrence and Posey counties; scarce. ^May 23-August 2:i Occurs beneath the bark of hickory, to the wood of which it is said to be very destructive. III. BosTRiCHHs Geoff, J764. (Gr., "hooked + ;) Elongate, .subcylindrical species, having the joints of the anten- nal club short, subglobose; hind angles of the thorax acute and prominent. Three of the five known sjiecies have been taken in the State. KKV TO INDIANA SI'KCIICS OF EOSTRICHUS. II. Thorax with two hooked proces,«cs in
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