101S 



FAMILY 1J[. <'Ki;.\MMY<'II>.l<:. 



Fig. 427. (After 

 Smith in Fifth Rep. 

 U. S. Ent. Cornm.) 



1884 (5993). FIIYMATODES VARIADILIS Fab., Faun. Suee., 



192. 



Klongate-obloiig. Head blackish; thorax reddish-yellow, 

 the disk often darker; elytra yellow, or bine with yellow 

 along sides; femora usually yellow, often bine. Thorax 

 sparsely and rather coarsely punctate, both it and elytra 

 with scattered pubescence. Length 12-13 mm. (Fig. 427.) 



Monroe, Posoy ;iii<! Dubois counties; scarce. May 

 11 -June 17. Probably throughout the State. The 

 larva 1 breed in oak. 



lss.~> i ri't'.ir, ). PHYMATODES AMCENUS Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. 



Flist, III, 1823, 413; ibid. II, 193. 



Oblong, slender, subdepressed. Reddish-yellow ; elytra 

 blue, shining; antenn;i'. libue and tarsi piceous. Thorax sub- 

 cylindrical, sparsely and rather coarsely punctured. Elytra 

 parallel, tips rounded, surface with rather coarse punctures, 

 each bearing a stiff, short hair. Length 5-8 nun. (Fig. 

 428. ) 



Tlmaiii'hout the State; frequent. May 11-June 5 

 I '.eaten from wild grape, in the stems of which tin 

 larva? bore; also occurs on flowers of yarrow and other 

 herbs. 



P. liridus Rossi., thorax yellowish, darker at sides, 

 length 9 mm., is known from 'Canada and the Middle u. s. Ent. Co 

 States." P. dimi<li<il ux Kirby, is said to inhabit the "United 

 States." 



1880 (0004). PIIYMATODES VARius Fab., Spec. Ins., I, 1781, 



241. 



Elongate, rather slender, subcylindrical. Black, pubes- 

 cent with prostrate hairs; thorax at least in part and basal 

 portion of elytra often reddish-brown, the latter each with 

 two narrow whitish crossbars, one curved in front of middle, 

 I lie other nearly transverse, on apical third. Thorax rounded, 

 r.-ither sparsely and coarsely punctured. Elytra finely granu- 

 late-punctate. Length 6-9 mm. (Fig. 429.) 



Marion. County; rare. January 17- January 24. 

 Fig. 429. (After Two specimens presented by Harold Morrison; taken 

 u m s h E i nt.Sm^ P- from cellar where wood was stored. 



IX. CALLIDITM Fab. 1775. (Or., "beautiful + little.") 



To this genus belong six species having the palpi about equal in 

 size; mesosternum obtusely triangular; form flatter than in Phyma- 

 todes and with stouter antenna?, especially in male. Three species 

 may be looked for in Indiana, though but one has been taken. 



