258 W. D. FUNKHOUSER 



A])iindant thriiout the basin on oak. Particularly common on small 

 white and chestnut oaks on the hillsides. Solitar}^ in habit and ejuick 

 in movement. The nymphs seek the outer branches and the axils of 

 the leaves, while the adults prefer the twigs of second-year growth. 



The species may be recognized by the white vitta along the posterior 

 median line of the dorsal crest. This is a stout, robust species, common 

 thruout the summer. 



Technical description. — Very close to preceding species; pronotum shorter, darker; dorsal 

 crest with prominent pale fascia on posterior margin; tegmina nearly hyaline, tips faintly 

 clouded. 



Head roughly sculptured, flavous mottled with brown, faintly longitudinally striate, 

 very faintly punctate, pubescent; base weakly sinuate; eyes prominent, dark browTi; ocelli 

 very prominent, protruding, browTiish, marghis pale, much nearer to each other than to the 

 eyes; clypeus nearly flat, punctate, pubescent, base marked with brown, tip extended below 

 inferior margin of face. 



Pronotum densely but finely punctate, sparingly pubescent, dark brown mottled with green; 

 metopidium convex, median carina prominent, black interrupted with pale green; humeral 

 angles short and blunt; dorsal crest sloping backward, longer than high, higher before than 

 behind, posterior margin distinctly pale; posterior process short, acute, marked with greenish 

 before apex, not reaching tips of tegmina. 



Tegmina hyaline, bases punctured but not pubescent, tips clouded with brown, veins 

 brown. Undersurface of body brown. Legs flavous; tibiae hairy. 



Length of pronotum 9 mm., to tips of tegmina 11 mm.; width 5.5 mm. 



31. Telamona aitipelopsidis Harris (Plate xxvii, 4, 5, 15) 



1833 Membracis cissi Harris, List Ins. Mass., p. 584. 



1841 Membracis ampelopsidis Harris, Rept. Ins. Mass., p. ISO. 



1842 Harris, Treatise, p. 178. 



1846 Thelia cyrtops Fairm., Rev. Memb., p. 310, no. 17, pi. 5, fig. 13. 



1851 Walk., List Hom. B. M., p. 565. 



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



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



1854 Emm., N. Y. Agr. Rept. 5: 154, pi. 3, fig. 9 



1862 Membracis ampelopsidis Harris, Treatise, p. 220. 



1862 Telamona ampelopsidis Uhler, Harris' Treatise, p. 178. 



1869 Membracis ampelopsidis Harris, Ent. Corresp., p. 334. 



1870 Riley, Amer. Ent. and Bot. 2:245. 



1877 Telamona ampelopsidis Glover, Rept. U. S. Dept. Agr., p. 29, fig. 12. 

 1877 ■ Butler, Cist. Ent. 2: 221, no. 7. 



1877 Telamona cyrtops Butler, Cist. Ent. 2:222, no. 11. 



1878 Telamona ampelopsidis Glover, MS. Joum. Horn., pi. 2, fig. 25. 

 1886 Prov., Petite Faune Can. 3:243. 



1890 Van Duzee, Psyche 5 : 391 . 



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



1891 Osbom, Iowa Acad. Sci. 12:128. 

 1894 Godg., Cat. .Memb. N. A., p. 410. 

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



1908 Van Duzee, Stud. N. A. Memb., p. OS. 



1908 Telainonn ampelopsidis Van Duzee, Stud. N. A. Memb., p. OS. 



