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^ Teffigonia similig Woodw. Bull. III. St. Lah. III., p. 25, 1887. 

 O 7'ettigonia hieroglyphica, in ref. from Eastern States (nee Say). 



Smaller th?iiP hieror/ 1 i/jjJiica, which it much resembles, 

 pale reddish or grayish green, with several nearly parallel 

 lines on the disc of the vertex and a point at apex black. 

 Length, 5.5 — 6 mm.; width, 1.25 mm. 



Vertex slightly narrower and more pointed than in hieroglyphica, 

 three-eighths wider than its luiddlelength, over two-thirds the leugtli 

 of the pronotum, the margins rounded, apex slightly conical, the 

 lateral margin rounding directly to and confluent with the margin 

 of the eye. Front and clypeus as seen from side are evenly round- 

 ing, the rostrum reaching back to the scutellum. Elytra with the 

 nervures somewhat more pronounced than in hieroglyphica. vena- 

 tion similar. 



Color; head pale reddish or greenish yellow, apex wiih a black 

 point surrounded by a light circle. Front all light or with a light 

 median stripe and numerous short fuscous arcs. Clypeus unmarked 

 cr with but a minute black point. Vertex with the margins of the 

 reflexed portions slightly angularly lined, a line from the angle fol- 

 lowing the suture to the ocelli, inside of these on the disc there is a 

 pair of loops, their outer limbs often curving around to the ocelli 

 and sending a branch back to the posterior margin. These loops 

 often reduced in size to feeble lines, and their inner limbs some- 

 times broken or wanting. Pronotum with the anterior third light 

 yellow, disc olive or brownish, sometimes with a distinct pattern, 

 often without definite marking. Scutellum with the median half of 

 posterior disc light, margins and anterior disc often clouded with 

 fuscous. Elytra grayish green or reddish unicolorous with the nerv- 

 ures light, or mottled with creamy yellow, the nervures slightly 

 darkened. 



Genitalia; female segment nearly three times the length of the 

 penultimate, the posterior margin triangularly produced, whole 

 segment transversely convex. Ma'e plates long, triangular, two 

 and one-half times as long as the penultimate segment, nearly half 

 longer than their combined basal width, their margins fringed with 

 hair. 



Specimens have been examined from Maine, New 

 Hampshire, Vermont, District of Columbia, New York, 

 Ohio, Illinois, Kentucky, Alabama, Iowa, Nebraska, Kan- 

 sas, Colorado, Arizona and southern California; and 

 besides tliese, it has been reported from New Jersey (siini- 

 //.v), and Ottawa, Can. and Massachusetts (as Jii('rof//i/p/n'ca). 

 This species has been very generally confused with hiero- 

 (jlnphicd and reported under that name. All specimens 

 determined as that species that have been received and 

 examined from points east of Illinois have proved to 



