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BB. Color not green. 



C. Yellow, mottled with brown. tristis. 



CC. Gray, with transverse brown band. ampelopsidis. 



Telamona pyramidata Uhler. 



(PI. V, figs. 7, 8.) 



Telamona pyramidata Uhler, Wheeler's Rept. Chief Eng. for 1877, p. 1333. 

 Telonaca pyramidata Ball, Proc. Biol. See. Wash, xxxi, p. 28, 1918. 



Funkhouser gives the following technical description: 



Long, narrow body; crest triangular and pyramidal, as the name would 

 suggest; mottled brown with a dark transverse fascia extending from tip of 

 crest to lateral margin of pronotum, and a second shorter fascia behind it; 

 posterior process extending to tips of tegmina; tegmina hyaline, punctate at 

 bases, brown at apices. Differs from T. declivata chiefly in shape of dorsal 

 crest. 



Head wider than long, yellowish with large irregular punctures of brown, 

 sparingly pubescent; base regularly sinuate; eyes large, prominent, gray; ocelli 

 large, prominent, somewhat protruding, translucent; clypeus subtriangular, 

 sutures distinct, apex slightly produced, hairy. 



Pronotum deeply punctate, not pubescent; metopidium convex, decorated 

 with patches of yellowish and dark brown, median carina prominent, heavy, 

 black, broken by circular areas of yellowish ; humeral angles prominent, tecti- 

 form, blunt, brownish; dorsal crest triangular, rounded at tip, margin flattened 

 and brown, posterior margin pale ; posterior process long, slender, slightly curv- 

 ing downward, extending beyond tips of tegmina; median carina percurrent. 



Tegmina hyaline, bases and costal margins coarsely punctate but not pu- 

 bescent, tips brown. Undersurface of thorax flavous; abdomen dark brown. 

 Legs yellowish ; tibiae mottled with brown, hairy ; tarsi flavous ; claws fer- 

 ruginous. 



Length, 9-11 mm.; width, 5-6 mm. 



Internal male genitalia. Styles with anterior portion broad and 

 flat, posteriorly curved outward and with a large, blunt apical hook, 

 the apical fourth with a few short hairs ; connective large and heart- 

 shaped, bearing three longitudinal ridges; oedagus, viewed laterally, 

 U-shaped, anterior process rather slender and with a distinct tooth 

 on its cephalic aspect, posterior process large and club-shaped, the 

 apex with sawlike teeth on its anterior surface, and the functional 

 orifice on the posterior. 



Distribution. Gillette and Baker report this species from Colo- 

 rado and Funkhouser from New York. The writer has taken it at 

 Ames, Iowa. Specimens have been taken in Kansas from Johnson, 

 Pawnee, Cherokee, Riley and Pottawatomie counties. It seemingly 

 occurs throughout the Eastern states and west to the Rocky Moun- 

 tains. 



Hosts. Funkhouser reports it on chestnut oak. Gillett and Baker 



