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FAMILY L1I. CKKA M B YCID^C. 



19G9 (6392). DORCASCHEMA ALTERNATUM Say, Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 



Ill, 1823, 405; ibid. II, 188. 



Elongate, slender, cylindrical. Brown, sparsely clothed w r ith prostrate 

 gray pubescence ; thorax with four narrow stripes of clay yellow pubes- 

 cence ; elytra each with three rows of irregular spots of similar pubescence, 

 those of middle row the larger. Thorax sparsely and finely punctured, with 

 an elongate median smooth space. Elytra more coarsely punctured; each 

 with an irregular bare space behind the middle, this densely and continently 

 punctured. Length 8-12 mm. 



.Southern two-thirds of State; frequent. May 24-July 7. 



1970 (G393). DORCASCHEMA NIGRUM Say. Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., V, 



1827, 272; ibid. II. 330. 



Elongate, slender, cylindrical. Uniform dull black. Head with a nar- 

 row raised line. Thorax finely granulate-rugose. Elytra minutely granu- 

 late, sparsely, rather finely and deeply punctate. Length 8-10 mm. 



Throughout the State; frequent. June 5-July 8. Breeds in 

 hickory, in the dead twigs of which it occurs in numbers. 



LIII. HETCEMIS Hald. 1847. (Gr., "in sight" or "at hand.") 



Differs from the preceding by having the elytra narrowed and 

 pointed at tip. The antennas are slender, tapering, double the 

 length of the body, the third joint longest, twice the length of 

 fourth, fifth slightly longer than fourth. One species is known 

 from the eastern United States. 



1971 (G394). HETCEMIS CINEREA Oliv., Eut., IV. 1795, GS. 



Elongate, slender, cylindrical. Black, densely clothed with short, gray- 

 ish, prostrate pubescence. Antenme naked, black. Thorax cylindrical, 

 slightly longer than wide, narrower than elytra, the middle third with a 

 smooth dorsal line. Elytra rather densely and coarsely punctured, the 

 punctures hidden by the dense pubescence. Length 8-12 mm. 



Throughout the State; frequent. 

 May 16- July 7. Breeds in walnut, mul- 

 berry, osage orange and hickory, about 

 the dead limbs of which it may be found. 



Cacoplia pnUata Hald, clothed with 

 l\ soft gray pubescence, length 10-16 mm., 

 is known from New York, Pennsylvania, 

 Ohio and southward. 



LIT. GOES Lee. 1852. (Gr., "mag- 

 ical.") 



"Robust species, having the legs rather 

 short and snl:ci|iia] in si/e ; scape of an- 

 tennte with a distinct scar-like impres- 



Hald. (After 



S mill) in Fifth Ri>p. U. S. Ent Coipm.) 



. ...,., 



sion near apex; thorax cylindrical with 



