THE LEAF BEETLES. 



1227 



between the second and third costie are merged into two at middle. Length 

 mm. 



Dubois, Perry and Spencer counties; scarce. May 12-May 24. 

 Taken by sweeping roadside herbage. 



22T1 (TOTS). CHALEPUS IIOKNII Smith. Entoni. Americ., I, 1SS5, 04. 



Elongate, slightly wider behind. I'.luish-black. shining; thorax and ely- 

 tra scarlet red. the latter with a blackish sutural line reaching three-fourths 

 to apex. Vertex sulcate. Thorax one-half broader than long, sides dis- 

 tinctly subangulate near middle: surface coarsely and densely punctate. 

 Elytra each with three cost;e, the first and second indistinct behind the 

 middle; the four rows of punctures between the second and third regular. 

 Length 5-0.5 mm. 



Lake and Marshall counties; scarce. May 21-August 1. Occurs 

 on the hog-peanut, Falcata comas", L. 



22T2 (TOT9). CHALEPUS DORSALIS Thunb., Gotting.. 



Gel. Auz., 1805, 282. 



Wedge-shaped, rather broad. Color of Jiornii ex- 

 cept that the black sutural stripe of elytra becomes 

 gradually much broader and extends to apex. Vertex 

 coarsely punctate. Thorax wider at base, sides regu- 

 larly curved ; disk coarsely and densely punctate, fee- 

 bly depressed near base. Elytra costate and punctate 

 as in ftciiintlartN. the margins and apex serrulate. 

 Length 0-0.5 mm. (Fig. 540.) 



Throughout the State, frequent; much more 

 so in the southern counties. March 20-Decem- 

 ber 25. Occurs on the flowers of black locust 



/ r> T, \ i> T T Fig- 546 - (After Chitten- 



(homma), in the leaves of which the larvae den m B U H. as, N. Ser., u. s. 

 mine; also on pokeweed and clover, 

 beneath locust bark. 



22T3 (T080). 



Hibernates Dlv ' Ent) 



CHALEPUS KUBKA Weber, Obs. Ent, 1S01, 



60. 



Broadly wedge-shaped, depressed. Rose red or 

 reddish-yellow, the elytra with indistinct darker mark- 

 ings along the sides and on apical half; under surface 

 pale red to picomis. legs yellow. Vertex punctured. 

 Thorax much broader behind, sides nearly straight; 

 disk coarsely and deeply punctured. Elytra much 

 broader at apex, the margins flattened and serrate; 

 disk with three entire costa'. a shorter oblique one 

 from umbone to second and another from apex of third 

 for a short distance forward. Length 0-0.5 mm. (Fig. 

 54 T. ) 



Throughout the State; frequent. Mav 6- 



Fig. 547. X 5. (After 



Chittenden in Bull, ss, x. July 21, Occurs on locust, oak, sott maple and 



Ser., U. S. Div. Ent.) 



