THE LONG-nORXED \S'OOD-BORIXG BEETLES 



1017 



YII. Physocxemuh Hald. 184 1. (Gr., '■ bladder + leg.") 



To this geiiTis beloii'j- two species having the femora strongly 

 r-lub-shaped ; antenna? 11-jointed, longer than the body and taper- 

 ing to the end in male; as long as body and almost filiform in fe- 

 male, the himieri prominent and rectangular. One of the two oc- 

 curs in Indiana. 



ISS.T l.jOsS). PHYSncXEMUil DREVILI^-EUM SllT. 



Jom-n. Phil. Acad. Xfit Sc-i.. III. 



1S24. il3; ibid. 11, 194. 

 Elongate-oblong. Black; elytra bluish -black, 

 shining, each with three short raised whitish lines 

 on middle third placed side by side, the inner one 

 slightly oblique, usually a fourth line in front of 

 the middle one of tliesf. Thorax subglobose, with a 

 rounded tul k- icle each side near the middle ; apical 

 lialf and sidt-s covered with dense, short, velvet- 

 like hairs. Elytra granulate-punctate, sparsely pu- 

 lieseeiit. I>e]i,i:rli 12..j-li; mm. (Fig. 42U.) 



]\Iadisou. Putnam and Posey counties; 

 scarce. June ll—July 1. Occurs about elm 

 trtes. in the wood of which the larvie bore. 



BhopaJopus sanguinicoUis Horn, length 

 15-19 mm., is kno^vn from Xew York and 



Ohio. ^^Fig. 426. y 2i. (After Forbes.) 



VIII. Phymatodes MuLs. ISIO. (Gr., "growth -^ similar.") 



To this geniLs belong 16 species, all of rather small size, usually 

 bright in color and havino: the prosternum very narrow and 

 pointed; hind coxa? not prominent and not enclosed: thorax 

 rounded, usually sparsely punctured and shining. Three have been 

 taken in Indiana, while two others perhaps occur. 



KEY TO IXDIAXA SPECIES OF PHYilATODES. 



a. Elytra without narrow ere iss-bands. 

 6. Thorax yellowish : .'surface metallic. 



r: Larger. 12-13 mm. ; elytra and legs yellow more or less marked 

 with blue. 1SS4. v.\EiABrLis. 



fc. Smaller, 5-9 mm. 



d. Elytra blue, antennoe dark. ISS.j. amcextts. 



dd. Elytra piceous. lhidus. 



1)1). Thorax dark; elytra of lighter slmde before the middle: length 9- 



]2..j mm. ' DIMIDIATOS. 



(III. Elytra with twn narr.iw white or yellowish cross-bands; length 0- 

 9 mm. ISSO. VABrrs. 



