THE LONG-HORNED WOOD-BORING BEETLKS. 



107!) 



KEY TO SPECIES OF GRAPHISURIS. 



>i. Prolonged fifth ventral of female emarginate at tip: tarsi equal in width 

 in both sexes ; pubescence of upper surface mostly clay-yellow ; length 



13 Dim. TRIANGULIFER. 



aa. Fifth ventral of female deeply cleft at tip; front and middle tarsi of 

 male broader than in female; pubescence of upper surface chiefly 

 grayish. 1996. FASCIATUS. 



1996 (6443). GRAPHISURUS FASCIATUS DeG., Mem., 

 V, 1775, 114. 



Elongate, rather slender. Thorax grayish 

 with black dots; elytra thickly sprinkled with 

 small black spots, and usually with two irregu- 

 lar blotches, one in front of, the other behind 

 the middle ; antenna? and legs annulate. Thorax 

 finely and indistinctly, elytra rather coarsely and 

 sparsely, punctured. Length 8-14 mm. (Fig. 

 466.) 



Throughout the State; frequent. May 

 11-July 22. Found especially beneath 

 bark of beech and hickory; numerous pupa 1 

 under the former on June 9 ; also breeds in 

 oak and maple. 



LXIIT. 



1888. 



Fig. 466. (After Smith in Fifth 

 Rep. U. S. Ent. Comm.) 



CERATOGRAPHIS Gahan. 

 ( G r. , " horn + pencil. ' ' ) 



This genus, sufficiently characterized in the generic key, is rep- 

 resented in the eastern United States, including Indiana, by a single 

 species. 



1997 (6444). CERATOCRAPHIS BIGUTTATUS Lee., Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 



II. 1852, 172. 



Elongate, slender, slightly depressed. Dull brownish- yellow, rather dense- 

 ly clothed with brownish pubescence; elytra indistinctly mottled with gray- 

 ish, each with an oblique black band behind the middle and a short, ele- 

 vated blackish line on base. Thorax rather finely and densely punctured, 

 with a shaii). obliquely placed spine each side behind the middle. Elytra 

 rather coarsely, deeply and somewhat closely punctate, tips rounded. Ovi- 

 positor of female one-half the length of the preceding species; all the fe- 

 mora clavate. Length 9 mm. 



Lake County; rare. July 28. A species of northern range. 



Acanthocirtux ahxoli-ltis Oliv., dull whitish-yellow, elytra with 

 some small blotches and three undulated cross-liars, length 10-1-1 

 mm., is known from Wisconsin and Ohio, eastward and southward. 



