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lobe rouiultHl ami inDjei'tin^ I'orwanl, i)Ot>tciior lobe sharply angular, two-thirds 

 as hifih as anterior, both lobes in some cases margined with patches of darker 

 brown; posterior process short, heavy, acute, not reaching apices of tegmina; 

 humeral angles triangular, flattened, blunt. 



Tegmina smoky hyaline, bases dark brown and punctate, tijis brown, veins 

 heavy and often ])unctured along margins, l^ndersurface of thorax ferruginous, 

 segments margined with paler; abdomen brown. Legs ferruginous; tibiae and 

 tai-si hairy. 



Length, 8 mm.; width, 4.8 mm. 



Distribution. Van Diizec reports this species from Ontario, New 

 York, Ne\v Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois and Colorado. There is a 

 specimen in the Snow collection from Kansas City, Mo., so it un- 

 doubtedly occurs in eastern Kansas. 



Hosts. Unknown. 



Genus Telamona Fitch. 



The following is the original description of the genus: 



Humeral angles projecting, pointed and earlike: dorsum compressed-folia 

 ceous, the keel abruptly elevated at one or both its ends, forming a somewhat 

 square crest or foliole; thorax nearly or quite reaching the tips of the elytra, 

 with elevated longitudinal lines on each side; apical cellule triangular, its end 

 rounded. The squarish dorsal crest forms a marked distinction between the 

 genus here proposed, and that of Thelia, to which it is mo&l nearly related. 



Eleven members of this genus are known to occur in Kansas. 

 These may be separated by the following key : 



KEY TO SPECIES. 



A. Anterior margin of crest sloping to front of metopidium, without obvioua 

 sinus at its anterior base. 

 B. Crest, if elevated, more or less rounded or pointed at apex. 

 C. Crest distinctly elevated. 



D. Brownish species; crest higher and triangular. 



pyramidata. 

 DD. Greenish species; crest an obtusely conical hump. 



viridia. 

 CC. Crest scarcely elevated, broadly rounded above. obsoleta. 

 BB. Crest elevated, square or nearly so at apex. 

 C. Crest not as high as broad. 



D. Greenish-brown species. lugubris. 



DD. Gray, with oblique brown fascia. decorata. 



CC. Crest as high or higher than broad. querci. 



A A. Crest nearly vertical before or sometimes overhanging. 

 B. Color greenish or j^ellowish. 



C. Females bright green; males yellow, banded with brown. 



unicolor. 

 CC. Both sexes of about the same color. 



D. Pronotal hump very high. extrema. 



DD. Pronotal hump moderate. collina. 



