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Telamona tristis Fitch. 



Telamona tristis Fitch, Homop. N. Y. St. Cab., p. 51, 1851. 



Telamona coryli Fitch, Honiop. N. Y. St. Cab., p. 51, 1851. 



Telamona spreta Coding, Bui. 111. St. Lab. Nat. Hist., iii, p. 417, 1894. 



Funkhouser gives the following technical description: 



Near T. ampelopsidis in appearance, but smaller and lighter and differing in 

 coloration; crest high and square, higher before than behind; tegmina hyaline 

 tipped with brown; pronotum yellow mottled with red-brown. 



Head subquadrate, yellowish, faintly longitudinally striate, finely punctate, 

 closely pubescent, faintly mottled with brown; eyes prominent, brown; ocelli 

 pearly, nearer to each other than to the eyes; clypeus pubescent, tip slightly 

 extending below inferior margin of face. 



Bronotum densely punctate, not pubescent, ground color light yellow, a 

 broad transverse reddish-brown fascia nearly covering metopidium, a second 

 on front of crest, and a third extending down posterior third of crest and reach- 

 ing lateral margin of pronotum ; humeral angles produced, triangular, flattened, 

 blunt, tips dark; dorsal crest nearly square, truncate at tip, posterior margin 

 pale; posterior process long, sharp, not quite reaching tips of tegmina. 



Tegmina smoky hyaline, bases opaque and punctate, tips brown. Under- 

 surface of thorax flavous; abdomen brown. Legs ferruginous. 



Length, 8.5 mm.; width, 5 mm. 



Distribution. Reported from Ontario, New York, New Jersey, 

 Pennsylvania and Illinois. There are specimens in the Snow collec- 

 tion from Kansas City, Mo., so it doubtless occurs in Kansas. 



Hosts. Funkhouser reports this species from hazelnut and oak. 



Telamona ampelopsidis (Harris). 



Membracis cissi (Harris MS), List Ins. Mass., in Hitchcock, Geol. Mass., p. 584, 1833. 

 Membracis ampelopsidis Harris, Rept. Ins. Mass., p. 181, 1841. 

 Thelia cyrtops Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser. 2, iv, p. 310, 1846. 

 Telamona ampelopsidis Fitch, Homop. N. Y. St. Cab., p. 51, 1851. 

 Telamona monticola Uhler, Stand. Nat. Hist., ii, p. 225, fig. 302, 1884. 



Funkhouser gives the following technical description: 



Fine, large, well-marked species; crest high, erect, front margin nearly per- 

 pendicular, hind margin sloping; ground color grayish with brown transverse 

 fascia across metopidium, deep brown area at frontal base, brown fascia extend- 

 ing from posterior tip of crest to lateral margin of pronotum; tegmina hyaline, 

 with brown tips. 



Head yellowish, faintly marked with brown below, sculptured, finely punc- 

 tate, sparingly pubescent; eyes prominent, grayish brown; ocelli large, yellow- 

 ish, nearer to each other than to the eyes; clypeus smooth, pubescent, tip tri- 

 angular. 



Pronotum finely punctate, very sparingly pubescent; metopidium yellow at 

 frontal margin, black spot above each eye, median carina prominent, black; 

 humeral angles prominent, blunt, extending beyond the eyes as far as the 

 length of the eyes; dorsal crest higher before than behind, margin somewhat 

 flattened; posterior process long, strong, heavy, extending almost to tips of 

 tegmina. 



