. 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. 314 FAMILY X. PSELAPHIDiE. evenly curved, disk faintly, irregularly and coarsely punctate, with a small median triangular fovea near base and a smaller rounded one each side, the three connected by a fine curved impressed line. Elytra one-fifth longer than thorax, finely punctate, each with a short basal groove and fovea. Length mm. (Fig. 147, c.) Monroe Comity; rare. May .13. Sifted from debris of beech
. 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. 314 FAMILY X. PSELAPHIDiE. evenly curved, disk faintly, irregularly and coarsely punctate, with a small median triangular fovea near base and a smaller rounded one each side, the three connected by a fine curved impressed line. Elytra one-fifth longer than thorax, finely punctate, each with a short basal groove and fovea. Length mm. (Fig. 147, c.) Monroe Comity; rare. May .13. Sifted from debris of beech stump. Dury finds tbem at Cincinnati between April 2 and ilay 2, '' in the decayed interior of a standing dead tree.'' Pselaphus longiclavus Lee, blackish-brown, elytra blood-red, leng-th mm., is known from Iowa to Louisiana. P- bellax Casey, dark reddish-yellow, length mm., was described from ^Michigan. IX. Ttchus Leach. 1817. (No meaning.) Antennas attached to the under side of the frontal tubercles, which are large, close together, separated by a short canal; upper. Fig. U9. , Tychu3 longipidpus, b, Bythinwt tychoides; c, Decarthron hrenddi; d, Rybaxis brenddi. AU highly magnified. (After Brendel and Wickliam.) surface of head with a small puncture each side near the front part of eye. KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OF TYCHUS. a. Thorax \Yith four small foveie at base and a larger one each side; ely- tra depressed, the sutural lines parallel; third and fourth joints of palpi equal. 600. longipalpvs. aa. Thorax with five basal fovere; elytra more convex, the sutural lines curved; third palpal .ioint triangular, shorter than fourth. 601. MINOR. 600 (ISTS). Tychus longipalpus Lee, Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist, YI, 1849,82. Pale reddish-brown, subdepressed, sparsely clothed with long, suberect hairs. Head as long as wide. Antennse longer than head and thorax, first joint twice as long as second, third to eighth subequal; ninth globular, twice as wide as eighth; tenth larger; eleventh
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