THE LOXIM10KNKD WOOD-BOKIXO I5KKTI -KS. IMS') 







c. Elytra rounded at tip with spine at suture, very rarely with the apex 

 acute and without sutural spine; gray with yellow patches. 



2004. CALCARATA. 



<'c. Elytra rounded at tip without spine at suture. 

 /. Elytra with marginal or suhmarginal stripes. 

 ;/. Thorax and elytra not black. 



//. Pubescence silvery white; thorax and elytra brown or yellow- 

 ish-brown with two white stripes. (Fig. 470.) CANDIDA. 

 lih. Pubescence ash-gray. 



/. Thorax yellmv with four black spots on disk and one on each 

 side; elytra with broad marginal and sutural stripes bright 



yellOW. PUNCTICOLLIS. 



//. Thorax and elytra gray, each with an orange stripe on sides. 



./'. Second and third crossbands on elytra oblique, a small 



dark spot usually on each side of tirst and one behind 



the third. 200.~>. TRIDENTATA. 



./'./' First and second crossbands on elytra oblique; small dark 



spots wanting. 200(5. IMITA.NS. 



;/!/. Thorax and elytra black, with (.range stripes on sides, rarely a 



sutural orange stripe present; surface coarsely punctured. 



2007. LATKRALIS. 



//. Elytra without stripes, usually with spots, rarely unicolored. 



A-. Elytra with white pubescent spots; thorax with two white 



stripes; sides and under surface white. 



/. Mumeri of elytra not white; two large white spots on each ely- 

 tron, reaching neither margin or suture. (Fig. 472.) 



CRETATA. 



//. Ilumeri white; two white spots near the suture on each ely- 

 tron. FAY I. 

 /,7,-. Elytra without white pubescent spots. 



///. Cinnamon or reddish-brown, sometimes nearly black; male 

 smaller, 10 mm., with elytra unicolored; female, larger, 

 l.~> iiini.. with a transverse undulated yellowish crossbar at 

 middle. 2008. DLSCOIDEA. 



//////. Olive yellow, with three small black dots near middle of each 

 elytron, these sometimes wanting. 20ui. VKSTITA. 



S'. <>l>Ji(ju<i Say (Fig. 4BS), length !(>--! mm., is known from New 

 England to Michigan and Wisconsin. It is found on black alder 

 (Al tuts scrrulata AVilld.) in June and very probably occurs in north- 

 ern Indiana. X. nincsta Lee., length 8-0 mm., breeds in poplars and 

 is known from New England, Northern Ohio, Michigan and west- 

 ward. 



2002 547!>). SAI-KUDA MITICA Say, Jouru. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci.. Ill, 1S24. 

 400; ibid. II. I'.H. 



lOlongate. robust. IMack. sjiarsi'ly clothed with gray and yellow pubes- 

 cence. Thorax with an orange median stripe extending onto the head and 

 a similar stripe each side; elytra with numerous patches of denser yellow 



