638 FAMILY IV. SCOLYTIDJE. 



1027 (9122). IPS CALLIGRAPHUS Germ., 1824, 4G1. 



Elongate, subcylindrical. Piceous or brownish-testaceous, almost shin- 

 ing, clothed with long yellow or grayish hairs; antennae yellow. Sutures of 

 the club angulated, the point of the angle directed forwards. Thorax ob- 

 long, very finely sparsely punctate behind, a narrow median line smooth, 

 the front part roughly tuberculate, with transverse rugae. Elytral deeply 

 punctato-striate, punctures large and transverse; intervals subconvex, 

 the internal ones uniseriately punctate, sutural stria subsulcate; apex ob- 

 liquely excavate truncate, the margin of the excavation with six teeth of 

 which the second and third (counting from above) are the larger (Fig. 149, 

 A), fourth and fifth small, sixth minute apical margin produced; tibiae 

 strongly toothed. "Declivity deeply concave, polished, sparsely punctured; 

 prolongation of sutural stria well impressed; second interval with a small 

 cusp at end, and a similar one at end of third interval; fourth interval with 

 a large conical tubercle at end which is but slightly connected with the 

 tubercle of fifth interval, the latter always the most prominent. Behind 

 this prominent one are three acute, equidistant teeth, and the acutely ele- 

 vated apical margin." (LeConte.) Length 4.5 G.4 mm. 



Canada and Atlantic region to New Mexico. (Swaine.) St. 

 Petersburg, Sarasota and Dnnedin, Florida; common beneath 

 bark of freshly felled pine; Jan. 21 Nov. 9. West Virginia, 

 mining under green bark on stumps, logs, injured and dying pines 

 of all species; adults found May to November. (Hopkins.) I. 

 exesus Say is a synonym. 



1028 (9123). IPS GRANDICOLLIS Eich.. 1867. 402. 



Narrower, cylindrical. Almost shining, with long pale hairs. Thorax 

 oblong, behind less deeply punctate, median line smooth. Elytra less 

 deeply punctate-striate, sutural stria deeper, with dilated punctures, in- 

 terior intervals slightly convex, base impunctate; apex obliquely excavate 

 truncate, edge of declivity 5-dentate, third tooth the larger, first tooth 

 very minute, apical margin strongly elevated, entire. (Fig. 149, C.) 

 Length 3.24.5 mm. 



A B 



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Fig. 149- A. Declivity of Ips calligraphns Germ.; B, same of Ips pini Say; C, same 

 of Ips grandicollis Eich.; D, same of P-ityogcncs punctipennis Lee., male. All much 



enlarged. (After Felt.) 



Lake Co., Ind., rare; May 30. Tybee Island, Ga. ; June. 

 (Wenzel.} Lake Istokpoga, Sarasota and Dunedin, Fla. ; Jan. 30 



