246 W. D. FUNKHOUSER 



1894 Thelia acuminata Godg., Cat. Memb. N. A., p. 413. 



1908 Glossnnotus acuminatVLS Van Duzee, Stud. N. A. Memb., p. 59. 



1909 Smith, Ins. N. J., p. 91. 



1911 Matausch, Journ. N. Y. Ent. Soc. 19:196. 



1916 Van Duzee, Check Li.st Hem., p. 59, no. 1617. 



Very rare. Taken only in a limited area on the south side of Butter- 

 milk Cxorge, on yovmg white oak. Attracts attention because of the very 

 long flattened crest, almost as high as the insect is long. The life history 

 is unknown. 



Technical description. — Dark gray mottled with brown; dorsal crest high, flattened and 

 swollen at tip; humeral angles prominent and triangular; tegmina hyaline tipped with 

 brown, veins punctured. 



Head almost as long as wide, gray with distinct scattered black punctures and fine whitish 

 pubescence; base sinuate; eyes large, prominent, brown, extending as far as bases of humeral 

 angles; ocelli large, prominent, pearly with white margins, nearer to each other than to the 

 eyes; clypeus continuing inferior line of face, punctate with black, pubescent with white, 

 tip prolonged into a point; antennae long and well developed. 



Pronotum dark gray with irregular markings of brown, coarsely and regularly punctate 

 with black, very sparingly pubescent; inetopidiuni convex, median carina prominent and 

 decorated with alternate lines of brown and yellowish, irregular black markings above 

 internal angles of eyes, humeral angles prominent, triangular, flattened, acute; pronotal 

 crest almost as high as length of pronotum, widened and flattened at tip, margin decorated 

 with pale areas, projecting usually forward as well as upward; posterior process gradually 

 acuminate, reaching apices of tegmina. 



Tegmina hyaline, tips clouded with smoky brown, bases and margins of veins punctate, 

 veins prominent. I'ndersurface of thorax fuscous; abdomen ferruginous. Legs fuscous 

 marked with brown. 



Length 10 nnn.; width between tips of humeral angles, 6 mm. 



20. GJossojiotus univittatus Harris (Plate xxvi, 8) 



1841 Membracis nnivittata Harris, Rept. Ins. Mass., p. 180. 



1842 Harris, Treatise, p. 178, 180. 

 1851 Enchenopa univiltata Walk., List Hom. B. M., p. 494. 

 1851 Thelia univHtata Fitch, Cat. Ins. N. Y., p. 52. 



1851 Walk., List Hom. B. M., p. 1143. 



1856 Fitch, Rept. Ins. N. Y. 3:390. 



1856 Fitch, Trans. N. Y. Agr. Soc. 16:390. 



1858 Fitch, Rept. Ins. N. Y. 5:804. 



1858 Fitch, Trans. N. Y. Agr. Soc. 18:804. 



1862 Uhler, Harris' Treatise, p. 221. 



1862 Membracis nniviitata Harris, Treatise, p. 221. 



1869 Thelia univittata Rath von, IMomb. Hist. Lane. Co. Pa., p. 551. 



1878 Uhler, List Hem. Dak. and Mont., ]). 510. 



1882 Lintner, First Rept. Ins. N. Y., p. 2S2. 



1883 Saunders, Ins. Inj. Fruits, p. 289. 

 1S86 Prov., Petite Faune Can. 3:211. 

 1890 Smith, Ins. N. J., p. 441. 



1890 Van Duzee, Psyche 5:391. 



1S90 Packard, Ins. Inj. For. and Shade Trees, ]). 98, 



1891 Osborn, Iowa Acad. Sci. I-: 128. 



