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TELA3I0NA, Fitch. 



T. querci. 



Telamona querci, Fitcb, Fourth Annual Report of the State Cabinet New York, 

 51,No. s. 



A single specimen of a pale variety, destitute of tbe usual dorsal 

 vitta, was collected by Lieutenant Carpenter in Colorado. It agrees in 

 shape with specimens from IsTew York and elsewhere, but differs in being 

 pale brown, almost uniform. This may be an immature specimen, and 

 the alcohol in which it was placed has deprived it of its original colors. 



Akchasia, Stil-l. ' 

 A. galeata. 



Menibracis galeata, Fab., Syst. Rhyng. 9, No. 13. 

 Smilia auriculata, Fitch, Fourth Report, 49, No. 7. 



Collected in Utah by C. Thomas. The species is widely distributed 

 in the United States, but does not seem to be very abundant in any of 

 the localities yet reported. It differs much in the altitude and degree 

 of curvature of the pronotum, as well as in its breadth and sharpness. 

 Specimens from Utah appear to be as large and high as any from the 

 most favorable regions of Illinois and Georgia. 



This and Smilia cameliis. Fab., are the only conspicuous represeata- 

 tives of the great group of Membracids which form such a remarkable 

 feature of the homopterous fauna of tropical America. In these, we 

 have the most agreeable green color, delicately mottled with a lighter 

 tone, or with rose, slightly flecked with black on the summit of the pro- 

 notum. In strong contrast with these, the South American species are 

 black, with pale bands or spots, or of some pale color, with black stripes 

 or spots. In a very few of them only do we meet with red markings. 



PUBLILIA, Stal. 



1, P. concava. 



Menibracis concava. Say, Long's Expedition, appendix ii, 301. 



From Utah, collected by C. Thomas. It inhabits most of the regions 

 in the eastern part of the United States; but this is the first time that 

 it has been recorded from west of the Missouri. 



There is a system of reticulated raised lines on the sides of the pro- 

 notum, which give the appearance of neuration as belonging to the 

 corium of certain Lepyrouias. This is quite deceptive to the unprac- 

 ticed eye, and might lead to the supposition that the hemelytra have 

 been soldered together. Such is not the case, however, and the true 

 hemelytra, although largely covered by the pronotum, are still present 

 and perfectly developed. 



2. P. modesta. Xew sp. 



Geueralform of P. concava, Say, but more decidedly vertical in front,, 

 and with the dorsal outline scarcely depressed before the middle ; apex 

 of the pronotum more slender and acute. Color pale yellow ; the head 

 and fore part of pronotum clouded with pale brown ; a spot above the 

 humeri, a broad oblique band behind the middle, and a broad cloud on 

 the apex grayish-brown; the dorsal edge irregularly spotted with dark 

 brown, and the oblique baud surmounted by a large brown spot. The 

 surface closely beset with series of coarse sunken punctures; the longi- 

 tudinal and reticulated surface-lines obsolete. Humeral margin of the 



