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32. Telamona tristis Fitch (Plate xxvii, 6) 



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



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



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



1851 Telamona tristis Walk., List Horn. B. M., p. 1145. 



1854 Telamona coryli Emm., N. Y. Agr. Rept. 5: 155, pi. 3, fig. 6 



1856 Fitch, Kept. Ins. N. Y. 3 : 473. 



1856 Fitch, Trans. N. Y. Agr. Soc. 16:473. 



1856 Telamona tristis Fitch, Rept. Ins. N. Y..3:474. 



1856 Fitch, Trans. N. Y. Agr. Soc. !6:474. 



1860 Rath von, Momb. Hist. Lane. Co. Pa., p. 551. 



1869 Telamona corvli Rath von, Momb. Hist. Lane. Co. Pa., p. 551. 



1877 ' Butler, Cist. Ent. 2:221, no. 6. 



1877 Telamona tristis Butler, Cist. Ent. 2:221, no. 9. 



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



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



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



1890 Van Duzee, Psyche 5:391. 

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



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



1891 Telamona coryli (?) O.sborn, Iowa Acad. Sci. |2:128, 



1892 Telamona coryli et tristis Godg., Ins. Life 5:93. 



1893 Telamona coryli Godg., Can. Ent. 25: 172. 



1893 Telamona tristis Godg., Can. Ent. 25: 172. 



1894 Telamona coryli Godg., Cat. Memb. N. A., p. 419. 

 1894 Telamona spreta Godg., Cat. Memb. N. A., p, 417. 

 1896 Telamona tristis Fowler, B. C. A., p. 144, 



1896 Fowler, B. C. A., p. 145. 



1903 Buckt., Mon. Memb., p. 19S. 



1908 Telamona coryli Van Duzee, Can. Ent. 40:115. 



1908 Telamona spreta Van Duzee, Stud. N. A. Memb., p. 69. 



1908 Telamona tristis Van Duzee, Stud. N. A. Memb., p. 69. 



1908 Van Duzee, Can. Ent. 40: 115. 



1908 Telamona coryli Van Duzee, Stud. N. A. Memb., p. 68. 



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



1909 Telamona tristis Van Duzee, Can. Ent. 41 :383. 



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



1916 Van Duzee, Check List Hem., p. (iO, no. 1647. 



Rare. Occasionally taken on hazelnut and less commonly on oak. 

 Very conspicuous because of its light mottled colors. Habits and life 

 history unknown. 



Technical description. — Near preceding species in appearance, but smaller and lighter and 

 differing in coloration; crest high and square, higher before than behind; tegmina hyaline 

 tipped with brown; protonum yellow mottled with red-brown. 



Head subquadrate, yellowish, faintly longitudinally striate, finely punctuate, closely 

 pubescent, faintly mottled with brown; eyes prominent, brown; ocelli pearly, nearer to each 

 other than to the eyes; clypeus pubescent, tip slightly extending below inferior margin of 

 face. 



Pronotum densely punctate, not pubescent, ground color light yellow, a broad transverse 

 reddish brown fascia nearly covering metopidium, a second on front of crest, and a third 

 extending down posterior third of crest and reaching lateral margin of pronotum; humeral 



