THE IjEAF beetles. 



1227 



liet\yeen the second and third costte are merged into two at middle. Length 

 6 mm. 



Dubois, Perry and Speneei' counties; scai'L-c. May 12-iIay 24. 

 Taken hy sweeping roadside herbage. 



11271 (7078). CiiALEPCS HORXii Smith, Entom. Americ, I, 1885, 94. 



Elongate, slightly wider behind. Bluish-black, shining; thorax and ely- 

 tra scarlet red, the latter with a blackish sutural line reaching three-fourths 

 to apex. Vertex sulcate. Thorax one-half broader than long, sides dis- 

 tinctly subangulate near middle; surface coarsely and densely punctate. 

 Elytra each with three eostte, the first and second indistinct behind the 

 middle; the four rows of punctures between the second and third regular. 

 Length 5-6.5 mm. 



Lake and ^Marshall counties; scarce. ^lay 21-August 1. Occurs 

 on the hog-peanut, Falcata ccnnos^, L. 



1.'272 (7079). CHALErus doesaus Thunb., Gottiiij,'.. 

 Gel. Anz., 1805, 282. 



Wedge-shaped, rather broad. Color of horiiii ex- 

 cept that the black sutural stripe of elytra becomes 

 irradually much broader and extends to apex. Vertex 

 coarsely punctate. Thorax wider at base, sides regu- 

 larly curved; disk coarsely and densely punctate, fee- 

 lily depressed near base. Elytra costate and punctate 

 as in scopiilarls. the margins and apex serrulate. 

 Length 6-G.5 mm. (Fig. 54G.) 



Throushout the State, fre(pient; much more 

 so in the southern counties. 3Iarch 20-Decem- 

 ber 25. Occurs on the flowers of black locust 

 (Bohinia), in the leaves of which the larva' 

 mine; also on pokeweed and clover. Hibernates 

 beneath locust bark. 



Fig. 546. (After Chitten- 

 den in Bull. 38, X. Ser., U. S. 

 Div. Ent.) 



, U. S. Div. Ent.) 



2273 (7080). Ch.vlepus blbra Weber, Obs. Ent, 1801, 

 60. 



Broadly wedge-shaped, depressed. Rose red or 

 reddish-yellow, the elytra with indistinct darker mark- 

 ings along the sides and on apical half; under surface 

 pale red to piceous. legs yellow. Vertex punctured. 

 Thorax much broader behind, sides nearly straight; 

 disk coarsely and deeply punctured. Elytra much 

 broader at apex, the margins flattened and serrate; 

 disk with three entire costaj, a shorter oblique one 

 from umbone to second and another from apex of third 

 for a short distance forward. Length 6-6.5 mm. (Fig. 

 547. ) 



Throughout the State; frequent. ^May 6- 

 July 21. Occurs on locust, oak, soft maple and 

 lion, 



