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zontal line to the posterior pi'ocess. The dorsal carina is prominent and 

 piceous as far as the elevation, but caudad it becomes concolorous and 

 obscure. There is frequently a dark color marking extending from back 

 of the elevation to the lateral edge of the prothorax, slanting slightly 

 caudad. End of prothorax diffused with dark. Tegmina transparent, 

 except for the dark tip and slight coriation of base. Cephalic portion of 

 the prothorax pale. Suprahumerals sometimes dark at the tips. 



Haritat: Colorado Springs, Colo.; Cheyenne, Douglas and Gove 

 counties, Kansas; Missouri. 



Length, 10.2 to 8.5 mm. Described from twenty-five specimens. 



2. — Telamona ampelopsides Harris. Figs. 73, 74. 



Redescribed as Thelia cyrtops by Fairmaire. 



Color dark dusty brown, some specimens having a greenish cast in 

 the lighter portions. Metopidium rising similar to that in T. pyramidata, 

 but instead of sloping gently backward it rises abruptly to form the high 

 rectangular dorsal elevation. The dorsal contour of this protuberance 

 runs backward in an almost horizontal yet slightly descending plane un- 

 til past the middle of the prothorax, when it slopes suddenly downward 

 and then extends caudad, forming a lanceolate posterior process. Color, 

 dark brown, the cephalic face of the suprahumerals bearing a splotch 

 which extends toward but does not attain the median carina. This 

 median carina is piceous. The cephalic edge of the elevation has color 

 markings which extend downward and backward to meet the splotch at 

 the caudal edge of the elevation on the side of the prothorax. This 

 color may or may not extend as far as the posterior process, which is 

 dark. Median carina is dark and prominent for its entire length. Fe- 

 mora dark on dorsal side. Tegmina smoky and darker at tip; clear in 

 costal region. The males in this species are much darker than the fe- 

 males, being at times almost black, but with the markings visible. 



Length, 11 mm. to 8.8 mm. Described from forty specimens. 



Habitat: Menand, N. Y.; Kansas City, Mo.; Manchester, Vt.; Doug- 

 las county, Kansas. 



3. — Tribe Polyglyptini Goding. 



A.. Pronotum usually not produced anteriorly; if at all, only very slightly. 



B. Dorsum regularly rounded transversely, punctate ; prothorax not elevated in 

 rugee. The furcation forming the base of the terminal areole is a straight line 



or nearly so 1 — Vandusea Goding 



BB. Dorsum more or less elevated: the surface with longitudinal rugse. which may 

 become more or less reticulated: the furcation forming the base of the terminal 

 areole forming an angle. 



C. Dorsum strongly elevated, compressed, with a deep sinus whose base is 



rounded 2 — Entylia Germ. 



CC. Dorsum but slightly elevated : a little sinuated before the middle, the 

 base of the sinuation being fiat or angled, not regularly rounded. 



3 — Publilia Stal 



1. — Genus Vanduzea Goding. 

 This genus may be distinguished by the absence of wrinkes or rugae 

 on the prothorax and by the peculiar shape of the terminal areole or 

 third apical cell, which has a straight vein for a base instead of the 



3— Univ. Sci. Bull., Vol. VIII. No. 3. 



