Otiocerus signoretii FITCH 

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



Recorded from N. Y., la., Mo., Ark., and Texas. 

 Quite similar to reaumurii, but with the dots on the 

 elytra differently placed. 



Body pale yellow. Carinae of upper side of the head minutely 

 toothed, those of the lower side edged by a slender coal black line. 

 Antennae short, scarcely reaching to the eye, but with one basal 

 appendage of about the same length. Eyes dark brown. Elytra very 

 pale hyaline yellow, with a broad dusky cloud-like stripe from the 

 base to the middle of the inner margin, and extending thence obliquely 

 across to the outer margin at its tip, and sending a very broad 

 cloudy branch to the tip of the inner margin; a large blackish dot 

 anteriorly, on the inner side of the dusky stripe, situated in the 

 middle of the subaxillary cell, and four dots on the outer side of the 

 stripe, placed at the angles of an imaginary square, the outermost 

 one of these dots being in the middle of the outer or costal cell; 

 veins yellow, posteriorly red. Wings whitish hyaline, the veins rosy. 

 Legs pale. 



Length of body 5 mm.; length to tip of elytra 9 mm.; elytral 

 expansion 16 mm. 



The writer has on hand for study a series of five females 

 taken at Ames, la., by Prof. H. Osborn. 



Otiocerus reaumurii KIRBY 

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



This species has not been retaken since the original 

 description, and is known only from Georgia. 



Body pale, rather faintly tinged with red. Head with the upper 

 carinae straight and snowy-polinose. Eyes golden. Antennae lacking 

 in the type specimen. Elytra with a broad, subarcuate band, widening 

 at apex, and with five blackish dots on top, three on the vitta itself; 

 veins reddish. Wings rather milkish and iridescent. 



THE GENUS AMALOPOTA VAN DUZEE 



This genus is very near Anotia and forms a connecting 

 link between it and Otiocerus. It is difficult to distinguish 

 from Anotia in a key but is more definitely marked in 

 coloration than the latter, and has a somewhat broader 

 costa and the apical cells are a little longer and more 

 regular. 



There have been only two species described in the genus, 



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