THE LONG-HORNED WOOD-BORING BEETLES. 



1089 



2008 (6484). Sapekda discoidea Fab., Ent. Syst. Supp., 1798, 147, female; 



fuscipes Say, Journ. Phil. Acad. Nat. Sci., V, 1827, 273, 

 male. 



Elongate, subcylindrical. Male, slender, usually blackish or piceous; 

 above sparsely clothed with grayish pubescence, which forms a whitish line 

 on disk and' sides of thorax ; that of under side more dense, longer and sil- 

 very white; femora reddish-brown, tibiae and tarsi often darker. Female 

 more robust, dark reddish-brown, the pubescence olive or grayish-yellow; 

 head, thorax and scutellum more densely clothed with yellow hairs ; elytra 

 each with a small spot on basal third, another on apical third and a rather 

 broad, crescent-shaped bar at middle, composed of dense yellow hairs; un- 

 der surface light yellowish-gray. Length, male, 10-11 mm; female, 14- 

 16 mm. 



Marion, Putnam and Lawrence counties, scarce; probably 

 throughout the State. June 6-July 15. The sexes are so unlike in 

 size and appearance that they were long mistaken for distinct spe- 

 cies. It breeds in hickory and butternut, usually confining its at- 

 tacks to diseased or dying trees. 



2009 (6483). Saperda vestita Say, Long's Exped., 1824, 



29 ; ibid. I, 193. 



Elongate, robust, cylindrical. Dark reddish-brown, 

 everywhere clothed with dense, olive-yellow, prostrate pu- 

 bescence. Elytra each usually with three small black 

 dots, two placed obliquely in front of and one, more dis- 

 tant, behind the middle. Length 12-21 mm. (Fig. 473.) 



Throughout the State; frequent. June 3-Au- 

 gust 20. A large and handsome beetle known as 

 the "linden borer," as the larva 1 live in the wood 

 of the linden (Tiha), often proving very destruc- (A £ SJt'S 

 tive to those set out for shade. Remedies the same Rep u s Ent Comm) 

 as those above given for the ' ' poplar borer. ' ' 



Tribe IX. PHYTCECIINI. 



Medium-sized cylindrical or rather robust forms, having the 

 tarsal claws cleft or toothed in both sexes • front moderately convex, 

 broader than long; eyes finely granulate, emarginate or divided; 

 palpi slender, last joint elongate-oval, nearly pointed • antenna? not 

 longer than body, scape cylindrical; thorax either cylindrical or 

 with an obtuse tubercle on sides ; elytra cylindrical, rounded or trun- 

 cate at tips ; front coxa? conical, cavities angulated, closed behind ; 

 legs short, thighs not club-shaped; hind tarsi with first joint not 

 elongate, last joint rather long. The tribe is composed of five 

 genera, all of which are represented in Indiana. 



