. An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana : with bibliography and descriptions of new species . Beetles. THE LOXG-HORN'ED WOOD-BOEIXG BEETLES 1055 194S (G297j. Leptiba emakginata Fab., Ent. II. 341. Elongate, robust. Color given in key. Antennae feebly serrate. Tho- rax strongly narrowed from the base, which is broadly but deeply bislnuate; surface sparsely punctured. Elytra widest at base, gradually narrowed be- hind, truncate and emarginate at tips. Length 27-30 mm. One specimen in Dury collecti
. An illustrated descriptive catalogue of the coleoptera or beetles (exclusive of the Rhynchophora) known to occur in Indiana : with bibliography and descriptions of new species . Beetles. THE LOXG-HORN'ED WOOD-BOEIXG BEETLES 1055 194S (G297j. Leptiba emakginata Fab., Ent. II. 341. Elongate, robust. Color given in key. Antennae feebly serrate. Tho- rax strongly narrowed from the base, which is broadly but deeply bislnuate; surface sparsely punctured. Elytra widest at base, gradually narrowed be- hind, truncate and emarginate at tips. Length 27-30 mm. One specimen in Dury collection from northern Indiana. Taken by him also near Cincinnati. Of it he says: "This fine large species emerges from dead beech timber in June; the holes are perfectly round and some of them one-half inch in diameter. ]Many come from a single tree, yet it is very difficult to get speci- mens. '' L. pleheja Rand., length 13 mm., is a member of the Alleghanian fauna, recorded from ^Michigan. 1949 (6304). Leptiba subhamata Rand., Bost. Joum. Nat Hist, II, 1S3S. 44. Eloncrate. rather slender. Male, head and thorax black; base of legs and discal olytial stripe (often in- terrupted) yellow. Female, reddish-yellow, the top of head, a discal spot on thorax, seutellum, sutural and side margins and transverse median elytral band black. Antennse filiform. Thorax as in r/Dnrgiiiata. Fifth ventral of male broadly truncate-emarginate and bi- dentote. Length 12-14 mm. (Fig. 450.) Steuben Count>'; rare. June 16. Taken from fiowers of wild hydrangea. A species of northern ransre. ((J* Fig. 450. Leptue.*. lineola Say. Bost. Journ. Nat. Hist. III. 1S24. 421 ; ibid. II, 199. Elongate, slender. Black, finely pubescent; legs (except tarsi) and elytra dull yellow, the latter with narrow sutural line, a narrow stripe on disk, and a broad one, sometimes broken into siiots on sides, black. Thorax densely and finely punctured, feebly impressed, not sinuate on sides. Ely- tra with sides s
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