carinae slightly sinuous and polinose-snowy, lower ones faintly fus- 

 cous; three brown stripes on the thorax; antennae in the females 

 with two long appendages; eyes brown. Elytra pale sulphur yellow, 

 with a brown stripe from the base to the middle of the inner margin 

 and thence to the outer tip; a row of blackish dots on the hind edge 

 alternating with the ends of the apical veins, and about six dots 

 forward of the innermost of these, placed on the tips of the subapical 

 and on the bases of the apical veins; venation almost concolorous with 

 the ground color, slightly darker. Wings white, with iridescent 

 reflections. Legs pale, tarsi slightly fuscous. 



Length of body 4.7 mm.; length to tip of elytra 10 mm.; elytral 

 expansion 17 mm. 



Occurs on hickory and other forest trees. 



Otiocerus wolfii KIRBY 

 (1819 Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., xii, p. 15) 



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



Resembling amyotii very much but having the orange- 

 red stripe on side of the head from the eyes obliquely up- 

 wards to apex where it ends in a black streak, and the 

 elytra with three faint blackish dots placed outside of the 

 brown band. 



Body pale yellow, mesothorax slightly darker along median line. 

 Head large, rostrate, apex pointed, an orange-red stripe on each side 

 from the eye obliquely upwards to the apex of rostrum where it 

 ends in a fine black streak; upper carinae sinuous and polinose- 

 snowy, the lower ones faintly fuscous. Eyes brown. Antennae clavate, 

 reddish; the female with a single pale yellowish basal appendage, 

 longer than the antennae. Elytra yellowish, a faint brownish stripe 

 extending from the base to the middle of the inner margin and thence 

 obliquely to the lower tip; a row of blackish dots on the hind edge, 

 alternating with the ends of the apical veins and about six dots 

 forward of the innermost of these, placed on the tips of the sub- 

 apical and on the bases of the apical veins; in addition, the elytra 

 have three faint blackish dots in a row, outside of the brown stripe, 

 one of these dots being placed near the base of each of the discoidal 

 cells. Wings milky. Legs pale. 



Length of body 5 mm.; length to tip of elytra 10.25 mm.; elytral 

 expansion 17 mm. 



Redescribed from a female taken by the writer on 

 sycamore at Pickens, Miss., July 16, 1921, and a female 

 in the Osborn collection taken by W. S. Blatchley in Florida. 

 Fitch records this species as occurring on walnut bushes. 



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