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FAMILY LII. CERAMBVCIID.K. 



1979 (G423). Leptostylus macula S:i.y, Joui-u. Phil. Acad. Nat. Scl., \', 

 IStiC, I'CS; iliid. II, ::!27. 

 Oblong, couvex, robust. . Brownisli ; thorax with whitish pubescence 

 forming a broad stripe each side, banded within by a narrow blackish stripe 

 which is formed by a r(>«- of elongate bare tubercles; the central area 

 brownish. Elyti:^ each with a broad, irregular white blotch behind the mid- 

 dle and with six lines of minute black spots. Thorax deeply and densely, 

 elytra more sparsely punctate. Length 4-9 mm. 



Southern half of State; seai-ee. May 27-Jniie 24. Taken from 

 beneath walnut bark and beaten from nfik. Breeds in beech, hick- 

 ory, black walnat and butternut. 



L. roUnri>i flald., dull clay-ycUow, elytra sprinkled with minute 

 black s])()ts and irregular patches of dark and Ecray, length 10 mm., 

 is known from Kentucky eastward and southward. 



19S0 {(j420i. Leptostylus SEXGUTTATUS Say. 

 .lourn. Phil. Acad. Xat. Sci., 

 V. is2(i, 209; ibid. II, :V2S. 

 Elongate-oblong, robust. Br-ownish, irregu- 

 larly mottled with grayish pubescence; el.v- 

 tra with an eion^c.-ite dark spot behind base, 

 another behind middle, sometimes becoming 

 a bar, and a third near apex; antennae and 

 tibiiie annulate. Thorax finely, densely and 

 deeply punctured, the disk with five small, 

 blunt, rounded elevations. Elytra each with 

 two or three finely elevated costa\ each of 

 which, together with suture, bears a row of 

 distantly placed bJaek points. Length 7- 

 10 mm. (Fig. 400.) 



Kosciusko County; rare. June 7. 

 Said to breed in pine. Listed as ram- 

 mixt'us Hald., but Say's name has pri- Fig.4r,o. (After'^srith in Fifth Rep. u. 



Ority. "^^ ■^"^' Comm. 



L. bmsfus Lee, elongate, narrow, dull brownish-vellow sides cf 

 thorax and (4.vtra to middle black, length 4-r> mm., is kno^vn from 

 New York, Illinois and southward. 



1981 (G417). LEPTosTYLrs pakvis Lee, Xew Spec. X. Am Col II IST", 

 234. "' ' 



Elong,.,te-ol,lnn.,', moderately robust. Brownish, clothed with verv fine, 

 dense dark g,-ay pubescence; elytra with an aeutely angulate, oblique' white 

 band behind the middle; antenna, and tibia, annulate. Disk of thorax with- 

 out tuberc],.s, but often with four or five minute flat fac^ets. Elvtra with 

 «L"t r? ■"'"•'^^^'"" '" '™'" '"• ""'Wle :,nd each wid, r„nr iri-egnlar, somc^ 

 wha broken ensta., each of Ihese with ,■, row of s.nnll lul-ercles bearing 

 short, erect black scales. Length 4 C, nun. '<-.iiiu„ 



