THE LONG-HORNED WOOD-BORING BEETLES. 



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XXI. Callimoxys Kraatz. 1863. (Gr., "beautiful + sharp.") 



1903 (6101). Callimoxys sanguinicollis 

 Ollv., Ent., IV, 1808, 74. 

 Elongate, slender. Dull black ; thorax of 

 male red, with narrow black apical and basal 

 margins; elytra brownish; hind legs yellow, 

 the tips of joints black. Thorax subcylin- 

 drical, its disk with four obtuse tubercles. 

 Elytra sparsely and rather coarsely punctate. 

 Hind tibia? of males long and curved, with 

 numerous teeth on the outer margin. Length 

 8.5-10 mm. (Fig. 438.) 



Laporte and Kosciusko counties; 

 rare. June 6-June 24. Occurs on 

 flowers of Jersey Tea. Fi §- 438 - x 3*. (Original.) 



Tribe IV. RIIOPALOPIIORINI. 



This tribe is composed of a single genus of small, slender beetles 

 having the head elongate ; eyes finely granulated and deeply emargi- 

 nate ; antennae slender, as long as body in male, shorter in female, 

 the fourth joint shorter than the third or fifth ; hind tarsi with first 

 joint twice as long as second. 



XXII. Rhopalophora Serv. 1834. (Gr., "a club + bearing. ") 



This genus comprises three species, two from Texas, the other 

 from the eastern United States, including Indiana. 



1904 (6105). Rhopalophora longipes Say, Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., 

 III. 1824. 426 ; ibid. II. 201. 

 Elongate, very slender, subeylindrical. Bluish-black, the thorax red. 

 Thorax cylindrical, with a slight obtuse tubercle each side, very finely and 

 obsoletely punctate. Elytra with basal fourth flat and suddenly sloping 

 downward, the humeri prominent; surface deeply, coarsely and rather 

 densely punctured, the tips sub truncate, sometimes with two short spines. 

 Length 7-8 mm. 



Western and southern Indiana from Vermillion County south- 

 ward; scarce. May 30-June 30. Beaten from the foliage of oak 

 and the flowers of wild hydrangea, 



Tribe V. TRACHYDERINI. 



A large tribe containing as great a variety of forms as Tribe I, 

 "dmbycini. The distribution of the genera is, however, mostly 

 to the south and southwestward, representatives of but three of the 



