.1082 FAMILY LH. — CERAMBYClDyE. 



LXVl. Eri'OdONiiTs Lee. 1852. (Or., "well i l)e;mlea.") 



Eyes very eoarsely granulated; antennip not longer than body, 

 thickly clothed with long flying hairs, scape feebly clul)-sha|)ed, 

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

 tured without doi-sal 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 lieen taken. 



KEY TO SPECIES OF EUPOGONIUS. 



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



b. Elytra pale chestnut brown, the punctuation feeble, almost obsolete 



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

 transverse reticulations. tomentosus. 



hb. Elytra piceous, the punctuation coarse, gradually tiner but distinct 

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

 patches. 2000. vestitus. 



aa. Spine on side of thorax small, obtuse. 



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



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

 rax sparsely and evenly pubescent. pubescens. 

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

 black and inconspicuous ; thorax with a broad line of yellowish 

 pubescence each side. subabmatus. 



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

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

 putxsccHs Lec, length 7-8 unn., is recorded from Ohio and northern 

 Illinois; E. suharniat}is Lec, length 7-8 mm., breeds in elm and oc- 

 curs fhi'oughout the eastern United States. 



2000 (04")!)). EuPOGONius vestitus Say, .Tourn. Thil. Acad. Nat. Sci., V, 

 1S20, 273; ibid. IF, 331. 



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

 with erect hairs; elyti'a marked with numerous small, irregular patches of 

 clay-yellow inibescenee, these sometimes (form puupcr) becoming narrow 

 ti'ansverse lines. TlKirax densely, deeply and rallier eo;irsely ]iuncturtHl. 

 Elyli-a rounded af liiis. Length ("> s nnn. 



'riii-oughoiit the State; rre([iient. May 21-.lune 25. Beaten 

 from foliag(» of oak, beech and wild graj/e; said to breed in dead 

 liiekorv limbs. 



