248 W. D. FUNKHOUSEK 



1909 Glos.sonofus cralaegi Smith, Ins. N. J., p. 91. 



1913 Funkh., Horn. Wing Veins, figs. 37, 61. 



1915 Funkh., Fitch's Types, p. 50. 



1916 Van Duzee, Check List Hem., p. 59, no. 1621. 



Rare. Has been taken only occasionally on (luince, cral) apple, and 

 hawthorn in more or less cultivated areas. May have been introduced 

 on nursery stock from the northern part of the State, where it is fairly 

 common. The mottled colors on the pronotum prevent its being mistaken 

 for any other species of the genus. 



H. H. Knight has found the species commonly on quince in the vicinit}' 

 of Batavia, New York, during the month of July, and has succeeded in 

 obtaining some excellent photographs of the insects, of which Plate XL, 1, 

 and Plate xli, in this study (pages 369 and 395) are examples. The 

 nymphs, however, were not seen. 



Technical description. — A strikingl.y marked species, not to be confused with either of the 

 two preceding; smaller, sliorter, and stouter than either G. acurninnlus or G. iinivittatus; 

 pronotum brilliantly decorated with areas of chestnut red, pale whitish yellow, and deep 

 brown; crest erect, broad, flattened, dark in cok:)r, very variable in length. 



Head greenish gray punctured with black, irregularly sculptured, not pubescent; eyes 

 prominent, brown, reaching bases of humeral angles; ocelli not prominent, pearly, much 

 nearer to each other than to the eyes; clypeus longer than wide, projecting below inferior 

 line of face, tip hirsute. 



Pronotum coarsely punctate, sparingly pubescent, faintly longitudinally rugose on posterior 

 process; humeral angles triangular, short, blunt; dorsal crest variable in height, broad, 

 flattened, generally uniformly ridged, margin compressed; posterior process short, heavj', 

 blunt, not reaching apices of tegmina. 



Coloration: pale greenish yellow mottled with brown on front of metopidium, this color 

 extending in a band over humeral angles and ending in a broad pale patch at lateral margin; 

 humeral angles chestnut; dorsal crest deep brown mottled with chestnut on sides, chestnut 

 on posterior line, this chestnut band extending down each side of pronotum to lateral margin 

 and bordered with dark brown; pale transverse band across base of posterior process; posterior 

 process brown. 



Tegmina hyaline, tips clouded with brown, veins broad and prominent, bases and margins 

 of veins punctate. T^ndersurface of body ferruginous and pubescent. Legs very hairy; 

 tarsi ferruginous. 



Length 8 mm.; width 4.5 mm. 



The genus Heliria Stal 



Heliria is another genus of rather doubtful standing, the characters, like 

 those of Glossonotus, depending on the shape of the pronotal crest, which 

 is supposedly step-shaped. Only one species occurs in the basin. 



22. Heliria scalaris Fairmaire (Plate xxvi, 11, 12) 



1846 Thelia scalaris Fairm., Rev. Memb., p. 311, no. 18, pi. 5, fig. 14. 

 1851 Telamonn fagi Fitch, Cat. Ins. N. Y., p. 51. 



