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27. Telatnona Wvstcotti (loding (Plate xxvi, 17) 



1894 Tdamona Westcotli Godg., Cat. IMemb. X. A., p. 415. 

 1908 Van Duzee, Stud. N. A. Memb., p. (ifi. 



1915 Metcalf, Horn. No. Car., p. 7. 



1916 Van Duzee, Check List Hem., p. 59, no. I(i33. 



\'ery rare. A fine large species, with long, sloping pronotuni strikingly 

 marked with pale yellow or gray and light brown. The crest is low and 

 broad, with the tip squarely truncate. There is no record of the host and 

 nothing is known of the life history of the species. 



Technical description. — Fine, large, strikingly marked species; long, narrow pronotum, 

 decorated with yellow, gray, and brown; posterior process not reaching apices of tegmina; 

 tegmina hyaline tipped with brown. 



Head nearly as long as broad, sculptured, yellowish, irregularly punctate with brown 

 especially around margins; base sinuate; eyes l^rge, brown; ocelli not prominent, trans- 

 parent, slightly protruding, nearer to each other than to the eyes; clypeus slightly convex, 

 faintly punctate, tip rounded, hirsute. 



Pronotum finely punctate, sparingly pubescent; ground color yellowish or gray, with brown 

 fascia over metopidium, at base of crest extending to lateral margin, and at apex; humeral 

 angles prc.ninent, flat, triaiigular, tips blunt; dorsal crest longer than high, front margin 

 slightly sloping, posterior margin nearly vertical, tip squarely truncate, area behind cre.st 

 pale; lateral areas of pronotum and posterior process roughly longitudinally striate; posterior 

 process long, suddenly acute at apex, not reaching tips of tegmina. 



Tegmina hyaline, somewhat wrinkled, bases punctate, tips clouded with brown. I'nder- 

 surface of thorax fuscous; abdominal segments margined with brown. Legs mottled; tibiae 

 hairy. 



Length 10.5 mm.; width 5 nun. 



28. Telamuna rcdivata Fitch (Plate xxvii, 1, 2) 



1851 Telaniona reclivata Fitch, Cat. Ins. X. Y., p. 51. 



1851 Walk., List Hom. B. M., p. 114.5. 



1854 Emm., X. Y. Agr. Rept. 5: 1.55, pi. 3, fig. 7. 



1886 Prov., Petite Faune Can. 3:244. 



1889 Van Duzee, Can. Ent. 21 : 6. 



1890 Van Duzee, Psyche 5 : .391 . 



1890 Smith, Ins. N. .1., p. 442. 



1891 Osborn, Iowa Acad. Sci. r-:12S. 



1892 Godg., Ins. Life 5:93. 



1894 Godg., Cat. JNlemb. X. A., p. 414. 



1895 Gillette and Baker, Hem. Colo., p. 67. 

 1905 Van Duzee, X. Y. St. IMus. Bui. 97:552. 



1907 Baker, Can. Ent. 39: 115. 



1908 Van Duzee, Stud. X. A. Memb., p. 67. 



1909 Smith, Ins. X. .J., p. 92. 



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



1916 Van Duzee, Check List Hem., p. 60, no. 1635. 



Very common on basswood. Abundant thruout the basin. A difficult 

 species to delimit owing to the variation in shape of the pronotal crest. 

 May be generally recognized by the large size, rounded sloping crest, 



