1082. FAMILY LIT. CERAMBYClD/ti. 



LXVI. EUPOGONIUS Lee. 1852. (Gr., "well + bearded.") 



Eyes very coarsely granulated; antenna 1 not longer than body, 

 thickly clothed with long flying hairs, scape feebly club-shaped, 

 shorter than third joint, joints 5-10 equal : thorax densely punc- 

 tured without dorsal tubercles, armed on the side with a small 

 spine; legs short, equal; first joint of hind tarsi a little longer than 

 second. Four species are known, all of which may occur in Indi- 

 ana, though but one has been taken. 



KEY TO SPECIES OF EUPOGONIUS. 



(i. Spine on side of thorax acute, well marked. 



l>. Elytra pale chestnut brown, the punctuation feeble, almost obsolete 



near apex ; pubescence ash-gray or yellowish, forming more or less 



transverse reticulations. TOMENTOSUS. 



l>Tj. Elytra piceous, the punctuation coarse, gradually finer but distinct 



at tip; pubescence pale clay-yellow arranged in irregular small 



patches. 2000. VESTITUS. 



(id. Spine on side of thorax small, obtuse. 



c. Elytra nearly black, punctuation rather coarse, finer but distinct at 

 apex, the pubescence ash-gray, fine and very evenly disposed ; tho- 

 rax sparsely and evenly pubescent. PUBESCENS. 

 cc. Elytra black, coarsely punctured even to the apex, the pubescence 

 black and inconspicuous ; thorax with a broad line of yellowish 

 pubescence each side. SUBARMATUS. 



E. tomentosus Hald., length 7-8' mm., occurs on pine and is 

 known from Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida; E. 

 l>nl)cscGns Lee., length 7-8 mm., is recorded from Ohio and northern 

 Illinois; E. subarmatus Lee., length 7-8 mm., breeds in elm and oc- 

 curs throughout the eastern United States. 



2000 (0459). EUPOGONIUS VESTITUS Say, Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., V, 

 1826, 27:5; ibid. II, 331. 



Elongate, convex, parallel. Piceous brown, everywhere sparsely clothed 

 with erect hairs; elytra marked with numerous small, irregular patches of 

 day-yellow pubescence, these sometimes (form pauper) becoming narrow 

 transverse lines. Thorax densely, deeply and rather coarsely punctured. 

 Elytra rounded at tips. Length G-S mm. 



Throughout the State; frequent. May 21-June 25. Beaten 

 from foliage of oak, beech and wild grape; said to breed in dead 

 hickory limbs. 



