THE LOXG-HORN'ED WOOD-BOEIXG BEETLES 



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194S (G297j. Leptiba emakginata Fab., Ent. Syst.. II. 177.5. 341. 



Elongate, robust. Color given in key. Antennae feebly serrate. Tho- 

 rax strongly narrowed from the base, which is broadly but deeply bislnuate; 

 surface sparsely punctured. Elytra widest at base, gradually narrowed be- 

 hind, truncate and emarginate at tips. Length 27-30 mm. 



One specimen in Dury collection from northern Indiana. 

 Taken by him also near Cincinnati. Of it he says: "This fine 

 large species emerges from dead beech timber in June; the holes 

 are perfectly round and some of them one-half inch in diameter. 

 ]Many come from a single tree, yet it is very difficult to get speci- 

 mens. ' ' 



L. pleheja Rand., length 13 mm., is a member of the Alleghanian 

 fauna, recorded from ^Michigan. 



1949 (6304). Leptiba subhamata Rand., Bost. Joum. 

 Nat Hist, II, 1S3S. 44. 



Eloncrate. rather slender. Male, head and thorax 

 black; base of legs and discal olytial stripe (often in- 

 terrupted) yellow. Female, reddish-yellow, the top of 

 head, a discal spot on thorax, seutellum, sutural and 

 side margins and transverse median elytral band black. 

 Antennse filiform. Thorax as in r/Dnrgiiiata. Fifth 

 ventral of male broadly truncate-emarginate and bi- 

 dentote. Length 12-14 mm. (Fig. 450.) 



Steuben Count>' ; rare. June 16. Taken 

 from fiowers of wild hydrangea. A species of 

 northern ransre. 



19.00 (G.3(J*i. 



Fig. 450. 



Leptue.*. lineola Say. Bost. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist. III. 1S24. 421 ; ibid. II, 199. 



Elongate, slender. Black, finely pubescent; legs (except tarsi) and 

 elytra dull yellow, the latter with narrow sutural line, a narrow stripe on 

 disk, and a broad one, sometimes broken into siiots on sides, black. Thorax 

 densely and finely punctured, feebly impressed, not sinuate on sides. Ely- 

 tra with sides subparallel; surface coarsely, deeply and rather closely punc- 

 tured; tips truncate, subemarginate. Length 8-12 mm. 



Southern half of State ; frequent. ;\[ay 17- August 13. Occurs 

 on flowers of various kinds, especially wild rrise and Jersey Tea. 



1951 (6310). Lepttea cBt e:<-tata Hald., Trans. Amer. Phil. Soe.. X. 

 1847, 64. 



Elongate-oblong, slender. Color given in key; femora red. their tips 

 black. Thorax nearly smooth, strongly and gradually narrowed from the 

 base, which is bisinuate, the transverse basal impression deep. Elytra 

 scarcely narrowed behind, coarsely punctured; tips rounded, widely sep- 

 arated and margined, the outer angle subacnminafe. Length 9 mm. 



Vigo County: r;ii-e. June 15. Taken from flowers of the red- 

 osier dogwood (fJor)iux i-toJonifera Michx.) 



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