THE LONG-HQRNED WOOD-BORING BEETLES. 



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1991 (0437). Leptueges querci Fitch, Trans. N. Y. State Agr. Soc, 1858, 



796. 



Elongate-oblong, subdepressed. Head and thorax 

 very dark brown, the latter often with a narrow dis- 

 eal line of gray pubescence and a broad one on the 

 sides; elytra pale purplish-brown, marked with dark 

 brown as shown in Fig. 463, b. Antennae more than 

 twice as long as body. Thorax densely and finely, ely- 

 tra rather coarsely and sparsely, punctured. Length 

 3.5-6 mm. (Fig. 463b.) 



Throughout the State; frequent. June 3- 



„.,,,, Fig. 463. X b. a, Elytra 



July 8. Taken from flowers of wild hydrangea of L . signatus . bt of L . querci . 

 and beaten from elm and oak. Breeds in oak, c > of L.facam. (After Horn.) 

 hickory and butternut. 



1992 (6438). Leptueges facetus Say, Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., V, 1826, 



271; ibid. II, 329. 



Elongate-oblong. Black ; elytra each with a broad, oblique, Lrshaped 

 whitish mark extending from humerus inward to suture, thence outward 

 nearly to side margin, and a whitish bar on apical fourth. Antenna? and 

 tarsi dark brown, the former more than twice the length of body. Thorax 

 finely and densely, elytra more coarsely and sparsely, punctured. Length 

 3-4 mm. (Fig. 463, c.) 



Kosciusko and Marion counties ; scarce. June 20-June 25. Oc- 

 curs on trunks of beech, cedar and hickory, in the wood of which the 

 larvae dwell. 



1993 (6439) . Leptueges eegulaeis Lee, Proc. Phil. Acad. 

 Nat. Sci., 1862, 39. 

 Elongate, slender. Dark brown, densely clothed with 

 purplish-gray pubescence ; thorax with four rounded dark 

 brown spots, two near apex and two near base; elytra 

 each with six similar spots arranged in two oblique rows, 

 the outer row of four spots extending from humerus to 

 near apex, the inner row of two spots on basal third ; an- 

 tenna?, under surface and femora reddish-brown; tibia? 

 and tarsi black. Thorax and elytra both coarsely and 

 rather sparsely punctured. Length 7-9 mm. (Fig. 464.) 



Fountain and Marion counties ; scarce. June 

 Kg. 464. (After Horn.) |4_ j line 17 Occurs on the foliage of wild grape. 



LXI. Hyperplatys Hald. 1847. (Or., "over + broad,") 



This genus differs from Lepi urges by having the elytra more 

 flattened on the disk, sides abruptly sloping downward and sepa- 

 rated from disk by an acute ridge or carina, tips each obliquely 

 emarginate, the outer angle more or less spiniform; antenna? more 



