1074 FAMILY L1I. CERAMBYCIDyE. 



1983 (6424). LIOPUS VARIEGATUS Hald., Tr. Ainer. Phil. Soc., X, 1847, 47. 



Elongate, rather robust. Purplish-brown, mottled with black, clothed 

 with very fine and short pubescence. Elytra with numerous small, irregu- 

 lar black spots, and a dark blotch behind the middle, which is bordered 

 behind by gray; antennas and tibhe annulate with gray. Thorax sparsely 

 and deeply punctured. Elytra each with two eoshe, which unite near apex; 

 coarsely and rather densely punctured, more sparsely and finely on apical 

 third. Length 8-12 mm. 



Marshall, Starke and Posey counties; scarce. June 15- July 2. 

 Breeds under barrk of the box-elder (Nc</iiit<l<> acci'oidt \ Mien.), and 

 the honey locust. 



19S4 (6426). Lioprs CBASSULUS Lee.. N. Sp. N..A. Coleop., II, 1ST::. 2:;r.. 



Elongate, convex, robust. Piceous brown, clothed with short, gray 

 pubescence; elytra with the suture, three slightly elevated lines and mar- 

 gin each bearing a row of sparsely placed black tufts of hairs; humeral 

 angles black, polished; a large bare blackish space each side in front of 

 middle and a curved, bare, black band behind middle. Antenna? one-half 

 longer than body, annulate, first, third and fourth joints subequal. Thorax 

 nearly twice as wide as long, feebly punctulate. Elytra rather coarsely 

 punctured, tips obliquely truncate. Length 6-7 mm. 



Floyd County; rare. June 2:5. Uiveds in the twig's of hack- 

 berry. 



1985 (6428). LIOPUS FASCICULARIS Ilarr.. Trans. Ilartf. Soc. Nat. Hist., I, 



1836, 88. 



Elongate, rather slender. Pale brown : disk of thorax with an oval 

 spot near base and two obliquely placed ones near apex, dark brown. Ely- 

 tra with a black spot near scutellum. a much larger one on sides behind 

 the humerus and with a number of small black ones scattered irregularly: 

 also with an angulated black band, bordered widely in front by gray pubes- 

 cence, just behind the middle; back of this a second rather indistinct black 

 band usually visible, the pubescence between 'this and apex brown. Thorax- 

 very finely and sparsely punctate. Elytra each with three slightly elevated 

 lines, the inner and outer uniting before the apex; surface rather coarsely 

 and closely punctured. Length 5-6.r> mm. 



Southern half of State, frequent; not noted north of Wells and 

 Vermillion counties. May 19- July 8. Breeds in prickly ash. 



1986 (6429). LIOPUS ALPHA Say. Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci. V. 1S2<5, 270; 



ibid. IT, 329. 



Elongate, slender. Usually dull reddish-brown, rather sparsely clothed 

 with grayish pubescence; elytra usually with I'mir IMWS of small black dots 

 and with an acute, angular black band behind the middle. Thorax with 

 three small blackish spots; finely and densely punctured. Elytra rather 



