1082 FAMILY LII. — CERAMBYCID/T;. 



LXVI. EuPOGONius Lee. 1852. (Gr., "well + bearded.") 



Eyes very coai-.soly granulated; antenna? not longer than body, 

 thickly clothed with long flying hairs, scape feebly club-shaped, 

 shorter than third joint, joints 5-10 equal; thorax densely punc- 

 tured without dorsal tubercles, armed on the side with a small 

 spine ; legs short, equal ; first joint of hind tarsi a little longer than 

 second. Four species are known, all of which may occur in Indi- 

 ana, though but one has been taken. 



KEY TO ^PBCIES OF EUPOGONIUS. 



a. Spine on side of thorax acute, well marked. 



6. Elytra pale chestnut brown, the punctuation feeble, almost obsolete 

 near apex ; pubescence ash-gray or yellowish, formii^ more or less 

 transverse reticulations. tomentosus. 



66. Elytra piceous, the punctuation coarse, gradually finer but distinct 

 at tip ; pubescence pale clay-yellow arranged in Irregular small 

 patches. 2(X)0. vestittjs. 



aa. Spine on side of thorax small, obtuse. 



c. Elytra nearly black, punctuation rather coarse, finer but distinct at 

 apex, the pubescence ash-gray, fine and very evenly disposed; tho- 

 rax sparsely and evenly pubescent pubescens. 

 CO. Elytra black, coarsely punctured even to the apex, the pubescence 

 black and inconspicuous ; thorax with a broad line of yellowish 

 pubescence each side. subabmatus. 



E. tomentosus Hald., length 7-8 mm., occurs on pine and is 

 known from ilii?higan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania and Florida; E. 

 pubescens Lee, length 7-8 mm., is recorded from Ohio and northern 

 Illinois; E. suharrnaius Lee, length 7-8 mm., breeds in elm and oc- 

 curs throughout the oastern United States. 



2000 (6459). EupoGONius vestitus Say, Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., V. 

 lS2r,, 273; ibid. 11, 331. 



Elongate, convex, parallel. Piceous brown, ever.nvhere sparsely elotheil 

 with erect hair.s ; el,\tra marked with numerous small, irregular patches of 

 clay-yellow pubescence, these sometimes (form itauper) becoming narrow 

 transverse linos. Thorax densely, deeply and rather coarsely puucturetl. 

 Elytra rounded at tips. Length C-S mm. 



Throughout thc^ S^tato; frequent. ~S\ay 21-June 2ri. Beaten 

 from foliage of oak, l)eech and wild grape; said to l)reed in dead 

 hickorv limbs. 



