Biology of the Membra cidae of the Catuga Lake Basin 257 



1903 Telamona monticola Buckt., ^loa. iMenib., p. 218. 



1903 Telamona hrunneipennis Buckt., Mon. Memb., p. 197, pi. 43, figs. 1, la. 



1908 Van Duzee, Stud. N. A. Memb., p. 6S. 

 190S Telamona monticola Van Duzee, Stud. N. A. Memb., p. 07. 



1909 Van Duzee, Flor. Hem., p. 206. 

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



1915 Metcalf, Hom. No. Car., p. 8. 



1916 Van Duzee, Cheek List Hem., p. 60, no. 1645. 



This species is included only tentatively, as its presence in the basin 

 is doubtful. A long series of specimens in the Cornell University collection 

 have been determined as T. monticola by E. P. ^'an Duzee, but these do 

 not show the straight frontal outline of i\\o crest as figured b}- Fairmaire, 

 and recent collecting has i)rought to light many forms that gradate between 

 these and typical specimens of T. querci. It is probable that this species 

 has been confused with the species T. querci as described later. 



Technical description. — Large, robust species; concolorous brown spotted with greenish; 

 dorsal crest high, rounded, greenish posteriorly; posterior process not reaching tips of tegmina; 

 tegmina punctate at base, brown at tips. 



Head one-fourth broader than long, sculptured, j-ellowish punctured with brown above, 

 black below, verte.K pubescent at lower angles of eyes; eyes prominent, dark brown; ocelli 

 large, greenish, nearer to each other than to the eyes; clypeus with median longitudinal 

 depression, punctate with black, tip e.xtending far below inferior margin of face, hairy. 



Pronotum finely punctate, sparingly pubescent, concolorous light brown spotted with 

 green; metopidimn convex, median carina prominent, black, interrupted with greenish 

 spots; humeral angles not prominent, rounded; dorsal crest about as high as long, rounded 

 at tip; posterior process rather short, acute, not reaching tips of tegmina. 



Tegmina hyahne, wxinkled, bases coarsely but sparingly punctate with black, tips deep 

 browTi. Undersurface of thorax, abdomen, and legs flavous; tibiae mottleti and hairy; 

 tarsi ferruginous, claws fuscous. 



Length 11 mm.; width 6 mm 



30. Telamona cfierci Fitch 



1851 Telamona querci Fitch, Cat. Ins. N. Y., p. 51. 

 1851 Telamona quercun Walk., List Hom. B. M., p. 1145. 

 1854 Telamona querci Emm., X. Y. Agr. Rept. 5: pi. 3, iig. 4. 



1876 Uhler, List Hem. West Miss. River, p. 344. 



1877 Telamona quercus Butler, Cist. Ent. 2:222, no. 10. 

 1890 Thelia quercus Smith, Ins. X. J., p. 441. 



1890 Telamona querci Smith, Ins. N. J., p. 442. 



1892 Telamona monticola [=q;uerci\ Godg., Ins. Life 5:92. 



1893 Telamona querci Godg., Can. Ent. 25:171. 



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



1903 Buckt., Mon. Memb., p. 218. 



1908 Van Duzee. Stud. N. A. Memb., p. 67, pi. 2, fig. 7. 



1913 Shelford, Anim. Comm., p. 234, fig. 212; p. 259, table .59. 



1915 Weiss, Ent. Xews 26: 102. 



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



1916 Van Duzee, Check List Hem., p. 60, no. 1644. 



