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Buffalo. Dr Smith states that this species occurs throuo^hout New Jersey 

 during June and Jul)- on hickory, having been noted by all recorders. 



Liopus punctatus Lee. 



A brownish gray beetle about 5/,6 inch long and with very long, slender antennae 

 occurs on oak. 



This very small dainty longicorn with enormously developed, slender 

 antennae, is a rare species. Only two examples were taken June 26, 1901 on 

 scrub oak at Karner. This little beetle is about i u, inch long, of brownish 

 gray color, inconspicuously and somewhat variably marked with black and 

 white. It may be separated from the other species of the genus, according 

 to Mr Wickham, by the convex front, the slightly retracted mouth, the 

 lateral prothoracic spine being somewhat distinct from the base and by the 

 elytra lacking distinct tufts of erect scales, and liaving a feebly marked 

 post median band of whitish pubescence in place of the angulate line. 



This species has been recorded by Dr .Smith from several New Jersey 



localities and he gives Cornus florid us and plum as food plants. 



Messrs Leng and Hamilton reconl this species from Wisconsin and 



Canada. 



Hyperplatys maculatus Hald. 



A small, grayish, black-spotted beetle about '4 inch long, may be bred from dead 

 twigs of oak and other trees. 



This, one of the prettiest of our long-horned beetles, is noteworthy 

 because of its extremely slender, black antennae, 

 which are longer than the bod)-. The thora.x is 

 broader than long, dark brown, co\ered with a 

 grayish pubescence, with a pair of large black 

 spots on the anterior third, and ornainented with 

 conspicuous lateral spines near the posterior third. 

 The wing covers are thickly clothed with a gray- 

 ish pubescence, bear numerous rather large, cir- 

 cular, black spots and are terminated by a pair of blunt spines. The femora 

 are distinctlv clubbed. 



