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usually very shallow; posterior lobe gradually elliptical to posterior apex; posterior process 

 heavy, high, tectiform, blunt, extending just beyond tips of tegmhia. 



Tegmina almost entirely concealed liy pronoturn; exposed costal margins opatiue and 

 punctate for basal half, apical areas hyaline, tips fuscous. Undersurface of body and femora 

 usually very dark, generally black. Legs flavous. 



Length 5 mm.; width 2.5 mm. 



OTHER SPECIES 



111 addition to the foregoing sixty-one species, which have actual!}' 

 been taken in the basin, there are two others that should be mentioned 

 as forms which should occur in this region but have never been 

 reported. 



The first of these is Ceresa albescens VanD., which is foimd conmionl}^ 

 thruout the State but has never been taken locally. The species is easily 

 recognizable by its brown markings, and resembles a small, pale C. diceros. 

 The usual host plants are blackberry and raspberry. The species has been 

 taken in large numbers in the Saranac Lake region. 



The second species M'hich may appear in the basin, and which if found 

 will clear up a mooted point in synonymy, is Telamona coUina Walk.' 

 Up to the present this name has practically stood for a lost species, since 

 the original description is so poor as to make absolute recognition 

 impossil)le. Thru the courtesy of W. L. Distant, however, the writer 

 has been able to procure an excellent figure of Walker's type specimen, 

 drawn by Horace Knight, of London. This i.^ here published (Plate xliv, 

 2, page 409), in the hope that it may lead to the ultimate recognition of 

 the species. It will be noted that the species bears a strong superficial 

 resemblance to T. pnunosa Ball, and it may be that the latter will prove to 

 be a synonym. 



TAXONOMIC POSITION OF HOMOPTERA 



The taxonomic position of the families of the Homoptera, and indeed 

 the validity of the systematic divisions themselves, have long been a 

 subject of discussion among hemipterists and the solution of the problem 

 is not yet in sight. Without taking up in detail the points on which the 

 workers fail to agree, it may be noted that in the division into families the 

 Anchenorhynchi alone are credited by Comstock with four families, 

 while Kirkaldy breaks up these fom- families into twelve divisions, all with 

 family rank. In the discussion of phylogeny Osborn and Van Duzee 

 place the Jassidae in the highest position, while Hansen and Kirkaldy 



