Otiocerus coquerbertii KIRBY 

 (1819 Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xiii, p. 18) 



Recorded from Ont., N. H., N. Y., Pa., N. C., Ga., 111., 

 Minn., Texas. 



A very strikingly colored species, approaching degeerii 

 in size, easily distinguished from the other species. 



Ground color pale, relieved by a broad band of red. 



Body pale. Head large, rostrate, a broad red band on each side; 

 upper carinae pale, sinuous, lower ones pale; antennae reddish, short, 

 clavate, at the base two reddish appendages larger than the antennae; 

 eyes greenish. Elytra of a pale yellowish-white ground color, relieved 

 by a broad band of red, extending from the tip of the head across 

 the eye and thorax, and along near the elytral suture to the tip of the 

 clavus, where it forks, one branch bordering the inner apical margin, 

 the other deflected to the apex of the costa, a dash of red lying just 

 beneath this band as it runs along near the suture. Wings clear 

 hyaline, immaculate. Legs pale, without markings. 



Length of body 6 mm.; length to tip of elytra 8.75 mm.; elytral 

 expansion 18.5 mm. 



Hickory, grape, oak, beech and maple are given by 

 Swezey as food-plants. 



Otiocerus francilloni KIRBY 

 (1819 Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xiii, p. 17) 



Recorded from N. J. and Georgia. 



Very like stollii but larger. Body pale, in no degree red. Head 

 darkly clouded, the lower carinae darkly spotted. Antennae blackish, 

 the basal appendages white. The entire elytra darkly spotted and 

 not immaculate at the base; an indistinct, broken, oblique band above, 

 composed of black dots and spots, and also with three blackish spots 

 on the posterior margin. Wings marked on the inside near the base 

 with blackish. Abdomen with a black dot on each side of ventral 

 segments. 



Otiocerus amyotii FITCH 

 (1856 Trans. N. Y. St. Agr. Soc., xvi, p. 394) 



Recorded from N. Y., Pa., Ga., Ohio, Iowa. 

 A very strikingly colored species and easily distin- 

 guished. 



Light yellow, elytra pale sulphur yellow, with a brown band or 

 stripe. Body light yellow. Head large, rostrate, an orange-red stripe 

 on each side from the eye to the forward edge below the apex; upper 



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