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or less distinctly mottled with ferruginous omitting the unarmed 
compressed sides of the median lobe, the terminal spine pale with 
the extreme tip and a subapical annulus black. Both the anterior 
and posterior lobes may at times be marked with black above. Head 
with twelve black points; three against each eye, four on the base 
of the clypeus and two between and above the ocelli, any or all of 
which may be wanting. Elytral nervures sometimes touched with 
brown in places. Legs pale marked with seven black points, two 
on each side of the femora, two on the base of the tibia exteriorly 
and one at its apex. Tergum marked with a black or brown point 
on either side at base or the disk may be almost wholly black in 
the male. Venter sometimes infuscated or even black in the male. 
Described from numerous specimens taken on Malvestrum 
during May and June. This peculiar looking Membracid differs 
from the only previously known species by the semivitreus texture 
of the pronotum, the longer and stiffer hairs and by the proportion- 
ally smaller posterior lobe of the pronotum, but it is very close to 
this genus and I believe can best be placed there. 
274. Micrutalis occidentalis Godg. Taken in great numbers on a 
graceful branching Chenopodium having a powerful sick- 
ening odor and growing commonly on the sandy flats at 
Lakeside, Mussey’s etc., July and August. The form de- 
scribed as binotata by Goding is a mere color variety found 
everywhere with the pale form and scarcely deserving a var- 
ietal name. 
275. Micrutalis parva Godg. Large numbers of this species were 
taken on the common oak mistletoe at Pine Hills in October. 
Its smaller size and more depressed form will best distin- 
guish it from the preceding, but other characters may be 
found in the shorter face and the narrower sinus of the last 
ventral segment of the female. The prevailing color of this 
species is a greenish-white less tinged with fulvous than is 
the preceding; the black marked form occurring with the 
pale but in less abundance than in occidentalis. 
276. Telamona pruinosa Ball. Five examples taken on scrub 
oak at Alpine in June and one from willow at Santa Ysabel 
in October. Those from the oak are a little smaller and 
greener than the typical form from the east but I do not 
think them distinct. 
277. Telamona declivata Van D. One example beaten from alder 
trees in the Cuyamaca Mts. at an altitude of 5000 feet in 
October 1913. It is a little more green than eastern speci- 
mens with the humeri rather less prominent and the dorsal 
hump wants even a trace of the hind angle, but I can find 
no specific characters by which to separate it. 
278. Telamonanthe rileyi Godg. Not uncommon on oaks from 
April to August. 
279. Cyrtolobus limus Van D. A form which I cannot distinguish 
from this species is not uncommon on oaks at Alpine and 
Mussey’s from April to October. 
