1922] Ball a?id Hartzell: Review of Orgerini 149 



scutellum not pustulate, tricarinate. Elytra brachypterous, irregularly 

 reticulate. Abdomen obese, oval. Abdominal segments with distinct 

 median carina. Fourth, 5th and 6th segments with a row of pustules 

 along the posterior margin for a part of their length. Rostrum equalling 

 the abdomen. Fore and middle femora and tibia greatly expanded, 

 foliaceous, carinated; basal part of tibia leaf -like, tapering. Hind tibia 

 with four spines. 



Timodema miracula Ball. 

 (Plate XII, Fig. 17.) 

 Timodema miracula Ball. Proc. Bio. Soc. Wash., Vo). XXII, p. 201, Dec, 1909. 



Resembling Ticidia cingulata Uhl. but with the anterior and 

 middle legs foliaceous, slightly larger, broad and darker, pitchy 

 brown or black with two white spots on the elytra. Length 

 3.5-4 mm. 



Cephalic process appearing only as a rounding margin to the vertex, 

 extending less than its width beyond the eye. Vertex shorter than eye, 

 with indistinct median carina, anterior third angulate. The line uniting 

 the frontal tablet with vertex equalling only one-half the length of the 

 vertex. Front short and broad, not extending beyond the eyes. Fore 

 and middle femora broadly foliaceous on both margins longitudinally 

 carinated. Tibia broadly foliaceous at the base, rapidly narrowing to the 

 rather attenuate apex. 



Color — Dark brown or black with a transverse line on the scutellum, 

 the posterior margin of the elytra and the tips of the fore and middle 

 tibia milky white, and a transverse band on the fore and middle tibia 

 reddish. A transverse band of white across the base of the clypeus. 



Examples of this curious species have been found at Ravenna, 

 Ontario, Pasadena and Tia Juana, California, and in Lower 

 California, Mexico. They occur only on the slopes of the 

 mountain sides and have been found under the dense green- 

 brush {Adenostoma Jascicidatiim) so common in the chaparall 

 of these slopes. The adults appear late in June on the lower 

 slopes while the larvae will be common above. A month later 

 the adults will be appearing near the tops of the ridges. Even 

 the youngest stages of the larvae have the foliaceous legs and 

 present a ludicrous appearance, somewhat resembling a crab as 

 they strut about. . 



Ticidia Uhler. 



Ticidia Uhl., Trans. Md. Acad. Sc. I, p. 143, 1891. 



Loxophora Van Duzee, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci., Phila., LIX, pp. 469, 472, 1908, 



Resembling Timodema Ball but smaller, with the fore and 

 middle tibia normal, linear, not foliaceous. 



