TRIBE XII. AXTIIOXOMIXI. 279 



(1. Legs partly red; front band wide. 398. EPHIPPIATUS 



(UL Legs black; front band narrower. 399. SALICIS. 



cc. Elytra with only a faint pale transverse band on basal third. 



400. NIGER. 



l>. Elytra black, with uniform whitish pubescence. 401. ILLIXOISENSIS. 

 oor. Funicle 6-jointed; form narrower, more elongate. 



e. Hind femora strongly thickened; larger, 2.5 3.5 mm. 

 /. Body wholly black; (reddish in var. pallidior.) 



f>. Thorax not wider than long, the intervals between its punc- 

 tures very narrow, ridge-like, not alutaceous; elytral intervals 

 and punctures coarsely rugose. 402. PALLICORXIS. 



gg. Thorax distinctly wider than long, sides more rounded, the 



intervals between the punctures flatter and alutaceous. 



li. Pubescence long, rather dense, conspicuous, with spots of 



more sparse, pale brownish hairs on elytra. 403. CANTS. 



7(/i. Pubescence short, sparse, inconspicuous, evenly distributed 



over the elytra, the latter shining, without brownish spots. 



404. iiixTus. 



ff. Elytra and abdomen red. 405. BETULETI. 



ee. Hind femora scarcely thickened; black, legs, red; smaller, 1.8 2 



mm. 406. IUTIPER. 



398 (8678). ORCHESTES EPIIIPPIATUS Say, 1831, 16; ibid, I, 280. 

 Broadly oval, subdepressed. Piceous-black; thorax thinly clothed 



with yellowish or grayish hairs; scutellum white; elytra with a large 

 irregular triangular space on basal half and a narrow subapical band, the 

 two connected on second interval, densely clothed with silvery white and 

 pale brown hairs; antenna-, tibia?, tarsi and usually the beak and front and 

 middle femora, pale reddish-brown; hind femora in part or wholly piceous. 

 Beak stout, shorter than head and thorax, cylindrical, feebly curved. 

 Thorax slightly broader than long, sides feebly curved, disc finely and 

 densely rugosely punctate. Elytra oval, at middle nearly twice as wide as 

 thorax, finely striate; intervals flat. Length 2.5 3 mm. 



Lake, Steuben and Poser counties, Intl., scarce; May 10 June 

 ::<>. Bloomfie-ld and Westville, N. J. Batavia, X. Y. ; May 22- 

 Sept. 19. Ranges from Quebec and New England to California, 

 south to District of Columbia. Taken in abundance on the 

 crack willow. H<ili.r fnif/ilis L., at Staten Island, N. Y. The beak 

 is black in three of the eight specimens at hand, and the front 

 spot or baud of elytra is in part pale brown in all. 



399 (8679). OUCHESTES SALICIS Linn., 1758, 381. 



Similar to the preceding but smaller and less robust. Black, feebly 

 shining; antennae and tarsi reddish-brown, club dusky; front elytral band 

 narrower, about one-third from the base, irregular, prolonged along the 

 suture to the scutellum in front and extending back along the second inter- 

 val, but not connected with the posterior transverse band which is narrow 

 and angulated. Thorax one-half wider than long; apex much narrower than 

 base, disc sparsely and finely punctured. Elytra oblong-oval, two-thirds 

 wider at base than thorax, sides feebly curved; striae coarsely punctured, 

 intervals slightly convex. Length 2 2.5 mm. 



