1084 



FAMILY LII. — CEEAMBYCIDJ., 



and Imr-marigolcl (Coreopsis and Bidciis). Taken by sweeping 



these plants. 



Tribe VIII. SAPEEDINI. 



Large or medium-sized, cylindrical species having the front flat, 

 quadrate and vertical; eyes finely granulated, deeply emarginate; 

 palpi rather stout, last joint more or less 

 oval, truncate at tip; antenmv as long as 

 body or a little shorter, sc^pe nearly cyl- 

 indrical, without cicatrix; thorax cylindri- 

 cal, without spines or tubercles; elytra 

 wider than thorax, rounded (rarely spinose 

 or acuminate) at tip ; legs moderate, thighs 

 not club shaped; hind tarsi with first joint 

 much elongated; tarsal claws divaricate. All 

 of our species belong to the single genus : 



LXVIII. Saperda Fab. 1775. (Gr., "a 

 kind offish.") 

 To this 'genus, as characterized above. 

 If) North American species have been 

 Fig 468. sai^rdaouiams^y. (After ascribed li.v :\lessrs. Felt and Joutel,* of 

 Smith in Fifth Rep u. s. Ent Coram ) vv'hicli eight have bceu taken in Indiana, 

 wliile six others may occur. Among them 

 are beetles of much economic importance, several .being very in- 

 jurious to apple trees, while others prey upon the elm, hickory, lin- 

 den and poplar. 



KEY TO INDIANA SPECIES OF SAPERDA. 



a. Antennae plainly annulate. 



6. Head deeply impressed l.ietween tlie eyes. 



c. Elytra obliquely iiarr(i\-\ed, ending in a siiine at tip: color yellow- 

 ish-brown with four oblique darker bands. (Fig. -tliS.) 



OBLIQllA. 



<■<:. Elytra slightly narrowed at li]! and without a siiine; thorax with 

 three orange yellow lines. 2002. mutica. 



hi). Head rounded in front. 



(/. Thorax with a dense line of gray pubeseenee each side; black, 

 coarsely punelured, thinly clothed with fine ash-gray pubeseenee. 



MCESTA. 



(hJ. Thorax with ijubeseenee \mirorni, black, more finely punctured, 

 densely elotheil throngbout witli gr.ay pubescence. 



L'OO:'.. eoxroi.oR. 

 ti-ir. Antenna' uuicolored, not annulate. 



•Their monograph is a model of its Idiiil, giving full description, life history and colored figure of each 

 species and its marlcings. 



