Otiocerus abbotii KIRBY 

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



Recorded from N. Y., Ga. and Florida. 



Body very pale reddish. Head with the upper carinae rather 

 straight and snowy-polinose; lower margin of rostrum, viewed from 

 the side, rounding to rather angular apex. Antennae short, subclavate, 

 reddish, a single, very much twisted, basal appendage, longer than 

 the antenna. Elytra milky-white, sparsely dotted with black, the base 

 immaculate however. Wings milky, iridescent. Legs pale testaceous. 



Length of body 4.50 mm.; length to tip of elytra 9.5 mm.; elytral 

 expansion 16.5 mm. 



The writer has for study a single female taken by Win. 

 T. Davis at Clayton, Ga., June, 1909. Fitch records taking 

 a pair on oak in New York. 



Otiocerus kirbyii FITCH 

 (1851 Homop. N. Y. St. Cab., p. 46) 



Recorded only from the state of New York. 



Body pale whitish. Elytra whitish with a faint somewhat broken 

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

 then obliquely to outer margin of apex, and with numerous sparsely 

 scattered faint brownish dots. Wings milky. Legs pale. 



Length of body 4 mm.; length to tip of elytra 8 mm.; elytral 

 expansion 13 mm. 



There is a female specimen in the U. S. National Mu- 

 seum taken at Selma, Ala., Oct. 20, by W. H. Gates and a 

 male taken by the writer beating a Japanese walnut tree 

 at Lexington, Miss., July 16, 1921, that appears to be this 

 species. The short description by Fitch is inadequate to 

 make absolutely sure of the identity of these southern 

 specimens. 



The following descriptive notes made from these speci- 

 mens may aid in more definitely placing this species. 



Nearest to abbotii in lateral outline of rostrum, coloration and 

 wing maculation although in this species some of the elytral spots 

 form an interrupted vitta. If its color were yellowish instead of 

 distinct white it would resemble very closely wolfii. Rostrum from 

 lateral view distinctly angulate as in Fig. 31. Antennae rope-like, 

 very dark brown, with one basal appendage which is lighter in color 

 and is as long as the antenna itself. Both antenna and appendage 

 is much stouter and shorter than those of abbotii which are long. 

 General color white, irregular brown spots in cells and also forming 

 a faint more or less interrupted vitta. Elytra and body white, the 

 abdomen unspotted. Length to tip of elytra 8 mm. 



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