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than 0. amabilis, and the punctures of the elytra are quadrate and much more closely 

 placed : the thorax is a little longer than wide. The head is frequently marked with 

 a fuscous band between the eyes. 



7. 0. TRiPUNCTATA, atra, parce pubescens, thorace flavo, parce punctate, callo utrinque Isevi, maculaque basali 



nigris, elytris confertim seriatim punctatis, palpis piceis. Long. -5. 

 Harris. Ins. Mass. 91. Hald. 57. 

 Saperda tripunctata Fabr. Ent. Syst. 2, 310 : Syst. El. 2, 321. 



Haldeman is in error in referring Olivier's Saperda plumbea to this species, it is 

 plainly Oberea ruficoUis. This species is parasitic in various species of Rubus. 



8. 0. BASALis, atra, parce pubescens, thorace flavo, confertim punctato, callo utrinque laevi, basique tota nigris, 



elytris confertim subseriatim punctatis, palpis nigris. Long. "38. 



One specimen. Tobula, Georgia. This species is very similar to the next, but the 

 pubescence is so fine as not to give any grayish appearance to the elytra. 



9. 0. PEKSPICILLATA, atra, dense cinereo-pubescens, pilis erectis densius vestita, thorace flavo, confertim 



punctato, callo utrinque laevi basique nigris, elytris confertim seriatim punctatis, palpis nigris. Long. -83 

 Hald. 57. 



Georgia and Missouri Territory. The dense cinereous pubescence and erect hairs 

 easily distinguish this species. 



10. 0. FLAViPES, nigro-picea, breviter cinereo-pubescens, thorace latitudine sesqui longiore, confertim 

 punctato, callo utrinque minus distincto laevi, elytris seriatim punctatis, palpis pedibusque flavis. 

 Long. '31. 



Hald. 57. 



Illinois and Pennsylvania ; very rare. The body is more slender, and the thorax 

 much longer than in any other species. Varies with the elytra indistinctly testaceous 

 at base. 



11. 0. FEMORALis, plumbeo-nigra, subtiliter cinereo-pubescens, capite thoraceque albo pilosis, dense punctatis, 

 hoc lateribus vix rotundatis, elytris densius punctatis, costis utrinque duabus subelevatis, tibiis anticis 

 femorumque apice rufis. Long. -4. 



Phytcecia femoralis Hald. 



Washington, D. C. Cab. Melsheimer. The claws are dilated at base with an 

 obtuse tooth, as in other Oberete, from which this species only differs in the 

 absence of the thoracic smooth spots. Phytoecia should probably be united to 

 Stenostola. 



§2. Elytris apice rotundatis. 



12. 0. ScHAUMii, fusca, cinereo-pubescens, capite postice, thoraceque flavis, hoc parce punctato, medio postice 

 longitudinaliter elevato, callo utrinque IcEvi, maculaque lateral! pone medium nigris, elytris margin'o 

 macula humerali, vittaque abbreviata basali flavis, humeris nigris, abdomine apice pedibusque flavis, tibiis 

 apice, tarsis, antennisque nigris. Long. -71. 



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