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tomentmuH, but this was only an optical illusion. The larva mines 

 the wood of the pine (Fitch) ; larva bores in twigs of felled yellow 

 pine (Schwarz); the writer bred it once from dead hickory limbs.] 

 " Ham." 



E. vestitli!« Say, 1827 {^^npenhi). Jour, .\ciul. Nat. Soi. v, 273; Lee, cd. ii. '.i'M ; 

 Pogonocherits vesiitu.s Hald., Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. x, 50; pauper Lee, Jour. 

 Acad. Nat. Sci. 2d ser. ii, 159. 

 Leufrth (J-O mm. = .24-. 36 inch. Habitat. — Canada, Vermont, Connecticut, 

 Massachu.setts, New York, Micbifjan. Ohio. Pennsylvania, New Jersey. 

 Alal>ania. 



[Piceous, hirsute ; thorax coarsely, nearly confiuently punctured ; 

 the elytra are mottled with small patches of denser yellowish brown 

 pubescence, which, in the individuals named pmiper, become trans- 

 verse lines. 1 have bred it sparingly from <^lead hickory limbs ; 

 hickory (Riley;.] " Ham." 



E. |»iibesceus Lee, 1873, New Species (S. M. C. No. 264), p. 236. 

 Length 7-8 mm. = .28-. 32 inch. Habitat. — Ohio, nortliern Illinois. 

 [More slender than veditas, with Hner and unmottled })ubcscence, 

 seems rare.] " Ham." 



E. subariuatus Lee. 1859 {Amphiduycha), ('oleop. Kansas, p. 22 (Smithson 

 Cont.) ; Lee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1861, p. 354, note. 

 Length 7-8 mm. = .28 .32 inch. Habitat. — VAWfi&A, New Hani})shire, New 

 York, Michigan, Wisconsin. Iowa, Illinois, Ohio, West Virginia, Pennsyl- 

 vania. 



[This species is sufficiently well defined by the table ; it is alto- 

 gether black, excej)t the yelhnv lines on the thorax ; there is a deej), 

 wide furrow each side of the suture. I have bred this species from 

 elm {Ulmus americaua) ; oviposits in stumps of recently felled elm.] 

 " Ham." 



LiYPSIME^TA Lee 



The two species in our fauna may thus be separated : 



Tliorax with widtli and length subequal, a little narrower at base than at a])ex. 



sides subsinuate. i-atlier coarsely, very closely punctate fiiscata. 



Thora.x wider than long, moderately convex, base and apex ecpial. sides not 

 sinuate, coai-sely sparsely punctate calif oriiica. 



I>. fus<;ata Lee, 1852, Jour. Acad. Nat. S<;i. ser. 2d, ii, 1.55; Chevrolat, Ann 

 France, 1862, p. 2.53; Li/psiiiiena 'f fascata f Dej., (M. 3d ed. p. 374. 

 Length 6.5-8 mm. = .26-.32 inch. Habitat. — New York, North Carolina. 

 Florida, Cuba. 



Brownish piceous throughout, pubescence short, cinereous, not 



concealing the [junctures, which, on the abdonien, are black ; the 



suture of the elytra, and an api)r()ximate, more or less interrupted 



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