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FAMILY LIT. — CERAMBYCTDyE. 



1884 (5993). Phymatodes vaeiabilis Fab., Faun. Suec.; 



192. 



Elongate-oblong. Head blackish ; thorax reddish-yellow, 

 the disk often darker ; elytra yellow, or blue with yellow 

 along sides; femora usually yellow, often blue. Thorax 

 sparsely and rather coarsely punctate, both it and elytra 

 with scattered pubescence. Length 12-13 mm. (Fig. 427.) 



Monroe, Fosey and Dubois counties; scarce. May 

 11-June 17. Probably throughout the State. The 

 larvae breed in oak, 



1885 (5996). 



Phymatodes amcentjs Say, Bost. Journ. Nat. 

 Hist, III, 1823, 413 ; ibid. II, 193. 

 Oblong, slender, subdepressed. Reddish-yellow ; elytra 

 blue, shining ; antenme, tibiae and tarsi piceous. Thorax sub- 

 cylindrical, sparsely and rather coarsely punctured. Elytra 

 parallel, tips rounded, surface with rather coarse punctures, 

 each bearing a stiff, short hair. Length 5-8 mm. (Fig. 

 428.) 



Throughout the State • frequent. May 11-June 5. 

 Beaten from wild grape, in the stems of which tht 

 larvae bore ; also occurs on flowers of yarrow and other 

 herbs. 



P. lividus Rossi., thorax yellowish, darker at sides, PacJSrd^nFifthiiep 

 length 9 mm., is known from "Canada and the Middle u. s, Ent. Comm.) 



Fig. 427. (After 

 Smith in Fifth Rep. 

 U. S. Ent. Comm.) 



States." 

 States." 



P. dimidiatus Kirby, is said to inhabit the "United 



1880 (6004). Phymatodes vaeius Fab., Spec. Ins., I, 1781, 

 241. 



Elongate, rather slender, subcylindrical. Black, pubes- 

 cent with prostrate hairs; thorax at least in part and basal 

 portion of elytra often reddish-brown, the latter each with 

 two narrow whitish crossbars, one curved in front of middle, 

 the other nearly transverse, on apical third. Thorax rounded, 

 \ ^\ rn ther sparsely and coarsely pimctured. Elytra finely granu- 

 v --^ y late-punctate. Length 6-9 mm. (Fig. 429.) 



Marion County ; rare. January 17-January 24. 

 Fig. 429. (After Two specimens presented by Harold Morrison; taken 



Smith in Fifth Rep. n l j x. i 



u. s. Ent. Comm.) from cellar where wood was stored. 



IX. Callidium Fab. 1775. (Gr., "beautiful + little.") 



To this genus belong six species having the palpi about equal in 

 size ; mesosternum obtusely triangular ; form flatter than in Phyma- 

 todes and with stouter antennae, especially in male. Three species 

 may be looked for in Indiana, though but one has been taken. 



