Cenchrea uhleri BALL 

 (1902 Canadian Entomologist., xxxiv, p. 261) 



Recorded from N. Y., N. J., Md., D. C. and Kansas. 



Resembling somewhat a Cedusa in appearance and in the way the 

 plytra are held when at rest, but slightly longer and narrower. Much 

 Smaller than heidemanni. 



Pale creamy or slightly testaceous-yellow, washed with tawny, the 

 Abdominal segments above and below blackish, with pale margins. 

 Vertex broader at base than at the anterior margin which is straight, 

 sunken on the disk, and definitely angled with the frons. Frons 

 widening slightly below to the clypeus. Antennae short, globular, the 

 fuscous seta short. Elytra long, strictly parallel-margined, creamy 

 in color; a round fuscous spot just before the apex of the costa and 

 usually a brownish or fuscous submarginal stripe along the costa, and 

 a brownish line along the sutural margin; the apical margin usually 

 reddish. Wings pale hyaline, the nervures slightly darker. 



Male genital plates or claspers long, strap-like, slightly widening 

 towards the apex. 



Length of body 2-3 mm.; length to tip of elytra 4-5 mm. 



The writer took specimens while sweeping in deciduous 

 woods during 1921 at the following localities in Mississippi : 

 a male on underside of ironwood leaf (Carpinus carolin- 

 iana) at Yokena, July 20; a female at Port Gibson, July 

 21; and a female at Woodville, July 25. Dr. C. J. Drake 

 also took a specimen at Vicksburg, Miss., July 19, 1921. 

 A pair was collected in woods at Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 3, 

 1915, by Mr. Geo. G. Ainslie and loaned for study. The 

 writer's material has been carefully compared with the 

 Ball type. 



THE GENUS OTIOCERUS KIRBY 



This genus is peculiar to the New World. It was erected 

 by Kirby in 1819 and eight species from North American 

 material were then described. Since Kirby's time all of 

 these species have again been collected and recognized with 

 the exception of reamurii which was described from Geor- 

 gia. Later, Fitch and others have added to the genus. Kir- 

 by's descriptions were all made in Latin and are rather 

 meager. 



Briefly characterized as follows: Head long, thin and rostrate. 

 Antennae, lying upon and rigidly appressed to the cheeks, sometimes 

 passing over the eyes with basal appendages that are extremely deli- 



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