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Ma/c. Head and palpi lemon yellow. Antennae black above, ferru- 

 ginous below. Thora.K brown, with a large lemon yellow spot on each side 

 in front, and a similar one on each side of the posterior part. Sometimes 

 the spot's are united by a yellow dash along the patagia. Abdomen with a 

 very broad yellow band on the anterior part of each segment, except the 

 last two, which are entirely yellow ; posterior parts of segments narrowly 

 brown. ' Legs yellow, slightly washed with brown. Fore wings trans- 

 parent, with'' narrow light' brown borders and discal mark. Hind wings 

 transparent, with outer "margin very narrow, brown. Discal mark absent. 



Female. IMuch more robust than the mak', with the second and fourth 

 abdominal segments usually wholly brown. Otherwise similar to the male. 



Expanse, male 30-35 mm; female 40-45 mm. Benlcnmidlcr 



Acanthoderes decipiens Hald. 



A rather stout, blackish beetle irregularly marked with gray, may be taken in June 

 on poplar and hickory. 



This insect was met with on poplar at Karncr, June iS, 1902, and 

 appears to be a soinewhat rare species in this section. Dr J. B. Smith 

 records taking this species in New Jersey on dead hickory in May. 



Description. It is a rather stout beetle, about y, inch long, black, 

 irregularly marked with gray, with annulate antennae 

 about the length of the bod\-. The thorax is wider 

 than long and with a prominent tuberosity on each 

 side. The elytra are nearly truncate anteriorh" and 

 bluntly spined posteriorly. This species may be sepa- 

 rated from its allies, according to Leng and Hamil- 

 ton, by the maculate white pubescence on the body ; 



' 111 '1 rig. iiQ Ac.Tnlhoderes de- 



the sutural region is not grooved, the elytra are with- cipic^. <-Mi..rKcd(,.riBinan 

 out a whitish space, each bears a distinct M-shap<-d. black mark behind the 

 middle, and the base is irregular, with an oblong, obtuse umbone at its mitUlle. 

 Distribution. This species has been recortled by Messrs Leng and 

 Hamilton from Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, \'ir- 

 ginia, Georgia, Louisiana, Nebraska, Ohio, Canada and Maine, and it has 

 been listed from the District of Columbia, by Ulke. It has also been 

 taken by Zesch and Reinecke in the vicinity of Huffalo, and is recorded in 

 Dury's list of Coleoptera, from near Cincinnati O. 



