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Smilia camelus (Fabricius). 



(PI. Vll, figs. 1, 2.) 



Membracis camelus Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng., p. 10, 1803. 



Smilia vittata Amyot & Sendlle, Heniip., p. 539, 1843. 



Thelia camelus Walker, List Homop., ii, p. 562, 1851. 



Thelia vittata Walker, List Homop., iv, p. 1143, 1852. 



Smilia betulae Coding, Can. Ent., xxv, p. 196, 1893. 



Antianthe compressa Buckton, Monog. Memb., p. 191, pi. 41, fig. 6, 1903. 



. Funkhouser gives the following technical description : 



Pronotimi high and foliace'ous, extending forward over the head; brown 

 with broad diagonal stripe of green or. yellowish followed by a parallel trans- 

 lucent band and a white spot; males much smaller and darker than females. 



Head triangular, sculptured, yellow with scattered brown punctures and 

 hairs; eyes brown; ocelli pearly, margins raised, nearer to each other than 

 to the eyes; clypeus continuing inferior line of face, apex slightly produced. 



Pronotum coarsely punctiu-ed, punctures farther apart in pale parts; wide 

 green band extending from anterior dorsal angle of crest to lateral margin 

 of pronotum, this band fading to yellowish in dried insects; wide translucent 

 band from behind middle of dorsum to lateral base of crest; white spot at 

 posterior base of crest; humeral angles hardly produced, short, rounded; 

 posterior process short, pointed, not reaching tips of tegmina. 



Tegmina hyaline, bases punctate with brown, apices brown. Undersur- 

 face of body brownish yellow. Legs flavous. 



Length: female, 9 mm.; male, 7-8 mm. Width: female, 3 mm.; male, 

 2.5-3 mm. 



Internal male genitalia. Styles with anterior portions broadened 

 and flattened as in Telamona, the sparsely spined posterior portions 

 of nearly same width to the laterally curved and doubly toothed 

 apices; connective large, broad, much as in Telamona; oedagus, 

 viewed laterally, large, U-shaped, anterior arm lightly chitinized 

 and longer than the more heavily chitinized posterior arm, with a 

 distinct knob at base and also about midway up the anterior arm, 

 the posterior arm with functional orifice on caudal aspect of apex 

 and covered with teeth on the cephalic aspect. 



Distribution. Van Duzee reports this species from Ontario, New 

 Hampshire, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, 

 North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Illinois, Michigan, Iowa, Mis- 

 souri, and Texas. Specimens have been taken in Kansas in Douglas 

 and Montgomery counties. 



Hosts. Funkhouser gives locust and oak as hosts. 



Genus Cyrtglgbus Goding. 

 The members of this genus are usually brownish insects without 

 prominent humeral angles, with a compressed dorsum, and fre- 

 quently with a thin, semitransparent spot below the dorsal ridge. 



