892 



F A MIL Y XLI V. — BOSTRI CHIDyE . 



1694 (5375) 



Fig. 351. (Original.) 



Lygtus opaculus Lee, New Sp. N. Am. Col., 1SG6, 103. 



Elongate, slender, subcylindrical. Blackish-pic- 

 eous or dark reddish-brown, very sparsely clothed 

 with yellowish hairs; head and thorax usually 

 darker than elytra. Thorax distinctly longer than 

 wide, much narrower than elytra, densely and 

 coarsely punctate; sides nearly straight, evenly 

 rounded into the front margin. Elytra with rather 

 coarse deep punctures arranged in regular rows. 

 Length 3.5-4.5 mm. (Fig. 351.) 



Throughout the State ; frequent. May 11- 

 June 17. Occurs on dead limbs of oak and 

 other trees. 



1695 (5376). Lyctus planicollis Lee, Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat Sci., 1858, 74. 

 Elongate, slender, subdepressed. Pi ceo as-black, very sparsely and finely 



pubescent. Thorax as wide as long, slightly narrowed behind the middle, 

 front angles rounded, hind angles rectangular, side margins very finely ser- 

 rate ; disk densely punctate, with an indistinct elongate median impression. 

 Elytra with rows of fine punctures. Length 4.5-5.5 mm. 



Posey County; rare. May 11. The thorax is wider, natter and 

 with a less distinct median impression and the punctures of elytra 

 much finer and deeper than in striatus. 



1696 (5376). Lyctus parallelofipidus Melsh., Proc. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 



II, 1844, 112. 



Elongate, subparallel. Dull reddish-brown, clothed with fine yellowish 

 pubescence. Thorax nearly quadrate, a little wider at apex than base, sides 

 almost straight, front angles subsulcate, hind angles rectangular; surface, 

 as well as that of head and thorax, very finely and densely punctured. 

 Elytra nearly three times as long and but little wider than thorax, the 

 sides nearly parallel. Length 3.5-4 mm. 



Orange and Perry counties ; frequent. May 16- June 1. Taken 

 while boring into the skinned portion of the trunks of living honey- 

 locust, Gleditschia iriacanthos L. Smaller and much more slender 

 than any of the other species. 



Family XLV. CITPESLLlE. 

 The Cupesid Beetles. 



This small family is represented in the United States by but 

 two genera and five species of elongate and somewhat flattened 

 beetles, having the elytra entire, with row^s of large square punc- 

 tures and - intermediate ribs, and the body covered with small 

 scales. They occur beneath bark and about old frame or log houses. 



The principal distinguishing characters of the family are the 

 1,1- jointed filiform, rigid antennae inserted rather close together 



