THE LONG-HORNED WOOD-BORING BEETLES. 



L085 



c. Elytra rounded at tip with spine at suture, very rarely with the apex 

 acute and without sutural spine ; gray with yellow patches. 



2004. CALCARATA. 



cc. Elytra rounded at tip without spine at suture. 

 /. Elytra with marginal or submarginal stripes. 

 g. Thorax and elytra not black. 



h. Pubescence silvery white; thorax and elytra brown or yellow- 

 ish-brown with two white stripes. (Fig. 470.) Candida. 

 hli. Pubescence ash-gray. 



i. Thorax yellow with four black spots on disk and one on each 

 side ; elytra with broad marginal and sutural stripes bright 

 yellow. PUNCTICOLLIS. 

 it. Thorax and elytra gray, each with an orange stripe on sides. 

 Second and third crossbands on elytra oblique, a small 

 dark spot usually on each side of first and one behind 

 the third. 2005. tridentata. 



if. First and second crossbands on elytra oblique ; small dark 

 spots wanting. 2006. imitans. 



gg. Thorax and elytra black, with orange stripes on sides, rarely a 

 sutural orange stripe present; surface coarsely punctured. 



2007. LATERALIS. 



ff. Elytra without stripes, usually with spots, rarely unicolored. 

 k. Elytra with white pubescent spots; thorax with two white 

 stripes ; sides and under surface white. 



I. Humeri of elytra not white ; two large white spots on each ely- 



tron, reaching neither margin or suture. (Fig. 472.) 



CRETATA. 



II. Humeri white ; two white spots near the suture on each ely- 



tron. FAYI. 



kk. Elytra without white pubescent spots. 



m. Cinnamon or reddish-brown, sometimes nearly black ; male 

 smaller, 10 mm., with elytra unicolored ; female, larger, 

 15 mm., with a transverse undulated yellowish crossbar at 

 middle. 200S. discoidea. 



mm. Olive yellow, with three small black dots near middle of each 

 elytron, these sometimes wanting. 2009. vestita. 



8. obliqua Say (Fig. 468), length 16-19 mm., is known from New 

 England to Michigan and Wisconsin. It is found on black alder 

 (Alnus serrulata Willd.) in June and very probably occurs in north- 

 ern Indiana. S. mo est a Lee, length 8-9 mm., breeds in poplars and 

 is known from New England, Northern Ohio, Michigan and west- 

 ward. 



2002 (6479). Saferda mutica Say, Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., Ill, 1824, 

 409 ; ibid. II, 191. 



Elongate, robust. Black, sparsely clothed with gray and yellow pubes- 

 cence. Thorax with an orange median stripe extending onto the head and 

 a similar stripe each side; elytra with numerous patches of denser yellow 



