892 FAMILY XLIV. — BOSTRICHIU.K. 



](>'.n (r^lTf)). r.Ycrrs oi'AcuLUs Lee, New Sp. N. Am. Col., 1S(J6, 10:>. 



I'longate, sleuder, subcylindiieal. Blackish-yic- 

 'Mius (ir dark reddish-browu, very sparsely clothed 

 with yellowish hairs ; head and thorax usually 

 darker than elytra. Thorax distinctly longer than 

 wide, much narrower than elytra, densely and 

 coarsely punctate; sides nearly straight, evenly 

 rounded into the front margin. Elytra with rather 

 coarse deep punctures arranged in regular rows. 

 Length 3.5-4.5 mm. (Fig. 351.) 



Tliroiighout tlie State; frequent. May 11- 

 June 17. Occurs on dead limbs of oak and 

 (Ougiiiiij other trees. 



1G95 (537G). Lyctu's planicollis Lee, Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 1858, 74. 

 Elongate, slender, subdepressed. Piceous-black, very sparsely and finely 

 imbescent. Thorax as wide as long, slightly narrowed behind the middle, 

 front angles rounded, hiud angles rectangular, side margins very finely ser- 

 rate ; disk densely punctate, with an indistinct elongate median impression. 

 Elytra with rows of fine punctures. Length 4.5-5.5 mm. 



Posey C'Ounty; rare. May 11. The thorax is wider, flatter and 

 with a less distinct median impression and the punctures of elytra 

 much finer and deeper than in striatus. 



1G96 (537C>). Lyctus paballelopipidus Melsh., Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 

 II, 1844, 112. 

 Elongate, subparallel. Dull reddish-brown, clothed with fine yellowish 

 pubescence. Thorax nearly quadrate, a little wider at apex than base, sides 

 almost straight, front angles subsulcate, hind angles rectangular ; surface, 

 as well as that of head and thorax, vei-y finely and densely punctured. 

 Elytra nearly three times as long and l>iit little wider than thorax, the 

 sides nearly i)arallel. Length 3.5-4 luiii. 



Orange and Perry counties; frcMpumt. May 16-June 1. Taken 

 wliile boring- into the skinned ])ortion of the trunks of living honey- 

 locust, GleditscJhia iriacanthos L. Smalh'r and nuich more slender 

 than any of the other species. 



Family XLV. CUPESID.l^. 

 The Cufesid Beetles. 



This small family is represented in the United States by but 

 two genera and nve species of elongate and somewhat flattened 

 beetles, having the elytra entire, with rows of large square punc- 

 tures and intermediate rilis, and the body covered with siiuill 

 scahis. They occur l^'ucafh bai-k and al>out old frame or log houses. 



The principal distinguishing characters of the family are the 

 1 1 -jointed fiiil'orm, rigid antenna^ inserted rather close together 



