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FAMILY LII. CERAMBYCIDJE. 



1952 (6319). Leptura nitens Forst.. Nov. Spec. 

 Ins., 1771, 45. 

 Elongate, robust. Black ; body beneath, mar- 

 gins of thorax and four elytral bands densely 

 clothed with golden yellow pubescence ; antenna? 

 dark reddish-brown; legs pale reddish-yellow. 

 Thorax convex, with transverse impressed lines 

 before and behind. Elytral bands broader at 

 the suture, the basal one curving outward and 

 forward to enclose the humerus ; tips of elytra 

 obliquely truncate and subemarginate. Length 

 10-13 mm. (Fig. 451.) 



Lake and Marshall counties; scarce. 

 June 11- June 15. Beaten from foliage of 

 Fig. 451. x 3. (Original.) oak. Listed as L. zebra Oliv. 



1953 (6311) . Leptura chalybjia Hald., Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc, X, 1847, 60. 

 Elongate, rather slender. Black; elytra steel blue, shining. Thorax 



subquadrate, convex, not much broader at base than apex; hind angles 

 small ; surface finely punctured. Elytra parallel, rather coarsely and sparsely 

 punctured ; tips rounded, not widely separated. Length 6-7 mm. 



Posey County; rare. June 25. Ranges from New York and 

 Pennsylvania to Iowa. 



1954 (6312). Leptura capitata Newrn., Entomologist. 1841, 71. 

 Elongate, slender, parallel. Black ; head and thorax red. Thorax con- 

 vex ; sides rounded, narrowed in front, hind angles small; surface finely 

 and rather sparsely punctate. Elytra much more coarsely and sparsely 

 punctured, the tips subtruncate. Length 6.5-9 mm. 



Lawrence and Posey counties; scarce. April 26-July 10. 

 Taken from flowers of wild plum. 



1955 (6313). Leptura Americana Hald., Trans. Amer. Phil. Soc. X. 



1847, 63. 



Form of capitata. Black; head and thorax red. with fulvous hair. 

 Thorax convex, strongly widened behind the middle, finely and sparsely 

 punctate. Elytra parallel, densely not coarsely punctured. Length 8-9 mm. 



Eecorded by Leng from Indiana, Ohio and southward; also by 

 Dury from Cincinnati. 



L. exigua Newrn, black, legs in part pale, thorax sometimes yel- 

 low with a black discal spot, length 5.5-7- mm., is a member of the 

 Alleghanian fauna recorded from northern Illlinois. 



1956 (6316). Leptura subargentata Kirby, Faun. Bor. Amer., IV, 1S37, 



184. 



Elongate, slender, parallel. Color given in key. Thorax bell-shaped, 

 more elongate and slender than in capitata, its surface densely, rather finely 

 punctate. Elytra more -coarsely and sparsely punctate, the tips rounded. 

 Length 6-7.5 mm. 



Marion and Crawford counties; scarce. June 1-June 8. Our 



