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farther south and numerous specimens have been received from Penn- 

 sylvania. It is easily recognized by the bright yellow band which bounds 

 the lateral margin of the pronotum in both sexes. Nothing is known of 

 its habits or life history. 



Technical description. — Females large, light brown; males small, very dark brown; lateral 

 margin of pronotum in both sexes bordered with yellow; body long and narrow; postenor 

 sweUing not pronounced; posterior process not reaching tips of tegmina; tegmina smoky 

 hyahne, clouded with fuscous at tips and showing dark abdomen thrU" middle. 



Head yellow spotted with brown, weakly punctate, not pubescent; base rounded; eyes 

 prominent, brown; ocelli not prominent, transparent; clypeus long, rectangular, apex dark 

 brown. 



Pronotum uniform brown with lateral band of yellow, densely and coar.sely punctate; 

 metopidium convex, median carina prominent; posterior swelhng not large, indistinctly 

 bilobed, median compression narrow; posterior process short, sharp, tectiform, extending 

 to about middle of apical cells of tegmina. 



Tegmina smoky hyaline, bases irregularly punctate, tips clouded with fuscous, veins 

 prominent and brown. Undersurface of head and thorax brown; abdomen flavous with sides 

 dark brown. Legs flavous-ferruginous. 



Length 7.5 mm.; width 3 mm. 



The genus O-phiderma Fairmaire 



A genus distinguished in that the compressed, rounded dorsum shows 

 no evidences of a ridge or crest. Most of the species are very hairy. 



The genus is represented in the basin by four species, which may l)e 

 separated as follows: 



a. Color green or yellowish green flava 



aa. Color brown or brown-mottled. 



b. Pronotum with broad yellow lateral stripe flavicephala 



bb. Lateral stripe absent. 



c. Large, 7-8 mm salamandra 



cc. Small, 5-6 mm pubescent 



55. Ophidcrma salamandra Fairmaire (Plate xxix, 3) 



1846 Ophiderma salamandra Fairm., Rev. Memb., p. 493, no. 1. 

 1851 Walk., List Horn. B. M., p. 588. 



1856 Fitch, Rept. Ins. N. Y. 3:465. 



1856 Fitch, Trans. N. Y. Agr. Soc. 16:465. 



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



1891 Osborn, Iowa Acad. Sci. 1^: 128. 



1893 Hopkins, W. Va. Agr. Exp. Sta. Bui. 32:231. 



1894 Godg., Cat. Memb. N. A., p. 438. 

 1903 Buckt., Mon. Memb., p. 196, 218. 



1908 Van Duzee, Stud. N. A. Memb., p. 99. 



1909 Van Duzee, Flor. Hem., p. 207. 

 1909 Smith, Ins. N. J., p. 93. 



1916 Van Duzee, Check List Hem., p. 61, no. 1700. 



