74 The University Science Bulletin. 



Telamona unicolor Fitch. 



Telamona unicolor Fitch, Homop. N. Y. St. Cab., p. 50, 1851. 

 Telamona fasciata Fitch, Homop. N. Y. St. Cab., p. 50, 1851. 

 Hemiptycha diffusa Walker, List Homop., Suppl., p. 143, 1858. 



Funkhouser gives the following technical description: 



Females large, brilliant iirufonn grass-green; males smaller, bright yellow 

 with deep brown fascia. Very striking in color; large size; crest high and 

 square; tegmina tipped with brown. 



Female. Head nearly twice as wide as long, green punctate with brown, 

 finely pubescent; eyes large, brown; ocelli large, orange, nearer to each other 

 than to the eyes; clypeus deeply punctate, pubescent, tip in a pointed ex- 

 tension. 



Pronotum concolorous green, fading to mottled yellow in cabinet specimens ; 

 very finely punctate and pubescent; metopidium more or less angular, median 

 carina distinct, three small brown spots mesad of humeral angles; humeral 

 angles produced, triangular, blunt; crest large, high, much higher before than 

 behind, anterior margin less sloping than posterior, dorsal margin brownish; 

 posterior process long, gradually acute, apex brownish and not reaching tips 

 of tegmina. 



Tegmina brownish hyaline, bases and costal regions punctate with black, 

 tips clouded with dark brown, veins prominent. Undersurface of thorax 

 flavous, abdomen yellowish, pubescent, ovipositor brown. Legs flavous; tibiae 

 mottled with brown; tarsi ferruginous. 



Length, 11 mm.; width, 6 mm. 



Male. Differs from female in size and color. Head mottled brown and yel- 

 low, much darker than that of female, much sculptured, inferior line of face 

 strongly sinuate. 



Pronotum bright yellow, metopidium strongly shaded with brown; dark 

 brown fascia on front of dorsal crest; dark brown fascia on posterior third of 

 crest extending gradually narrowed to lateral margin of pronotum; posterior 

 median line of crest yellow, transverse band of yellow behind crest; apex of 

 posterior process brown. 



LTndersurface of body deep brown. Legs strongly fiavous marked with 

 brown. 



Length, 10 mm.; width, 5 mm. 



Distribution. Van Duzee reports this species from Ontario, New 

 York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Michigan, Il- 

 linois, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Texas. In Kansas it has been 

 taken in Pottawatomie county. 



Hosts. Funkhouser gives hickory, butternut, walnut and bass- 

 wood as hosts. 



Telamona extrema Ball. 



Telamona extrema Ball, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvi, p. 179 pi. 1, fig. 1, 1903. 



The original description follows : 



Form of unicolor nearly, smaller, and with a still longer hump. Greenish 

 testaceous. Length: female, 10 mm.; male, 9 mm. Width, 5 mm. 



