THE I.OXG-IIORXED WOOD-BORIXG BEETLES 



1065 



l!Mj7 (r,:iST). iloxoHAMiirs scutellatus 

 2s;i: ibid. I. 1:12. 



Elongate, subcylindrical; eclor given 

 in Ivey; scutellum clothed with white pu- 

 bescence, its median line often smooth. 

 Antenme of male twice as long as body; 

 of female, one-fourth longer than body, 

 and s.5metimes annulate. Thorax trans- 

 versely wrinkled, especially so near front 

 and hind mar-ins. Elytra coarsely and 

 rugosely punctured, more so in male. 

 Length 1.5-lN mm. (Fig. 4.j."i. ) 



Lake and P.irtir conntii^s: fre- 

 quent beneath bark of pine. Jime 15- 

 •July 3. 



Say. Long's Exped., II, 1S24. 



M. coDfvsiii- Kirby, lenatli 



-31 



mm., occnirs in 'r'anada. New Eng- 

 land and the ^Middle States. ' ' 



(Gr. 



Fig. 455. C.lft^r Smith in Fifth Rep. U. S. 

 Ent. Comm-J 



III. DfiRC-\srnE:.rA Lee. ISon 

 'a deer -i- form.") 



This crfmis comprises three medi- 

 um or small-sij:ed species, differing 

 from their allies by the laek of cica- 

 trix on basal .ioint of antenna, the smooth sidns of thorax and the 

 rounded tips of elytra. All three occur in the State. 



KEY T(i SPECIES OF DOBCASCHEMA. 



a. Thorax trul.v cylindrical, longer than wiili^ : brown with grayish pubes- 

 cence. 

 b. Thorax transversely wrinliled. indistinctly imnctureil ; larger, l.j- 

 -- mm. l'.«;S. wiLDii. 



hh. Tliorax not wrinkled: puuctuataion distinct; smaller. S-12 mm. 



]Or>!l. AETEBXATl'M. 



iia. Thorax slightly narrowed behind the middle, nearly as wide as Icng ; 

 color lilack. 1970. nigrum. 



]!h;s (r,:;;)ii. Dobcaschema wiehii Uhler. Proc. Phil. Acad. Xat. Sei.. yil. 

 1S55, 217. 



Elongate, slender, subcylindrical. Brown, densely clothed on disk of 

 thorax and el.rtra with yellowish-gray iinlieseeuce, this bordered on sides 

 with ligiit gray puliescenee: eljtra with numerons small, rounded, bare 

 sp( ts and it large, irregular one behind ihe middle; ufteu also with a stripe 

 of clay yell< w pubes'-euce on sides, extending from middle to apex. Thorax 

 with median line smooth and with numerous fine transverse raised lines 

 or wrinkles. Ijength l.'-22 mm. 



^Marion and Fountain counties: scarce, -lune 3-June 17. This 

 and .the next breed in mulberry and osage-orange and the adults 

 are usually found <m the trunks or foliage of those trees. 



