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Otiocenis Degeerii, Kirby. This, our largest species, is not uncom- 

 mon here through July, August, and September. In color it varies from 

 pale reddish to brownish purple, but always shows the white line on the 

 suture before the appendix, and at the tip of the elytra. The antennae, 

 which are comparatively small, have but one appendage in both sexes. 

 The males are a little smaller than the females, and are less frequently 

 met with.* 



Otioccrus Stollii, Kirby. One specimen, a male, beaten from an oak 

 near this city, August iS, i88S. This small species is of the same dark 

 color we find in the preceding. A pale rosaceous vitta occupies the 

 vertex, the middle of the thorax, and the elytral suture, as far as the tip 

 of the clavus, beyond which is a pale line at the base of the appendix, as 

 in Degeerii. The two carinas, which are closely approximated on the 

 point, diverge slightly just before the apex ; on the vertex they are a little 

 arched above the eye, and their edge is finely crenated. The antennse 

 are larger than in Degeerii. This insect must have a wide distribution, 

 as it was described from Georgia by Kirby, and from Bahia, Brazil, by 

 Germar. It is quite distinct from the O. Stollii of Spinola (Aim. Soc. 

 Ent., Fr. VIII., p. 385), and of Amyot & Serville {Hemip.,]). 514), which 

 Dr. Fitch considers equivalent to his Amyotii. 



Otiocerus Coquerbertii, Kirby. This, our most beautiful, as it is our 

 most abundant species, occurs here with 0. Degeerii from July to Sept. 

 on various trees and bushes, especially on the beech, maple, oak, and 

 hickory. Its two appendages exceed the antennas in length. In size it 

 approaches Degeerii, but represents another facies of the genus ; dis- 

 tinguished by a pale ground color, relieved by a broad vitta of red or 

 fuscous, extending from the tip of the head across the eye and thorax, and 

 along the elytra near the suture to the tip of the clavus, where it forks, 

 one branch bordering the internal apical margin, the other deflected to 

 the apex of the co'sta. Their wings are clear or white, immaculate, and 

 the frontal keels are approximate on the lower part of the face. Here 

 belong Signoreti, Fitch ; Reaumurii, Kirby ; Wolfii, Kirby ; and Amyotii, 

 Fitch. 



(to be continued.) 



* Since writing the above, M. Provancher has (Petite Fawie Ent. dii Canada, \o\. 

 III. Heiiiip., p. 217, May, 1889) described an insect as Auiphixepa (!) Coqtiehertii, 

 referrins^ it to Kirby's species with hesitation. From his description it cannot be the 

 Coqitehertii, but it agrees in every particular with pale examples of Degeerii that not 

 infrequently occur here, and probably should not be considered as deserving even a 

 varietal name. 



