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7. Color green or greenish testaceous (or yellow in males only) ... 8 



Color not green or greenish 9 



Females bright green; males yellow banded with brown unicolor 



Both sexes greenish testaceous extrema 



Posterior margin of crest not white 10 



Posterior margin of crest white monticola 



10. Yellow, mottled with brown tristis 



Gray, with transverse brown band ampelopsidis 



11. Crest broader than high 12 



Crest as high or higher than broad querci 



12. Gray, with oblique brown fascia 13 



Brown, banded with darker reclivata 



13. Posterior process not reaching tips of tegmina decorata 



Posterior process extending beyond tips of tegmina sinuata 



T. declivata Van Duzee. 



1908. Telamona declivata Van Duzee. Stud. N. A. Memb., p. 64. 



Probably rare. Easily recognized by the very peculiar shape 

 of the crest which is not only pointed but is much higher in its 

 anterior half than in its posterior half, making a step suggestive 

 of the genus Heliria. The pronotum is long and narrow, the 

 posterior process exceeding the tegmina in length, the tegmina 

 smoky hyaline, punctate at bases and clouded with brown at tips. 



There is no host record and the life history is not known. 



New Haven, 30 July, 1901 ; Hartford, 12 Sept., 1907 (W. E. B.). 

 T. barbata Van Duzee. 



1908. Telamona barbata Van Duzee. Stud. N. A. Memb., p. 65, 



Rare. A small brownish species with a weak pyramidal crest 

 which is darker than the rest of the pronotum. The color is 

 mottled greenish brown. The posterior process does not reach the 

 tips of the tegmina which are smoky hyaline with apices broadly 

 clouded. 



The habits of this species are not well known. The writer has 

 previously reported the species (Membracidae of Cayuga Lake 

 Basin, p. 252. 191 7) as having been taken on white oak and bass- 

 wood. Mr. Woodruff has collected males, which agree in every 

 respect with the types of barbata in the Cornell collection, on white 

 oak with females of what is apparently decorata. Dr. E. D. Ball 

 insists, however (in correspondence), that barbata is not an oak 

 or basswood species, and writes under date of December 19, 1917: 



" what barbata is may not be settled as yet but it is not 



a white oak or basswood species." It is evident, therefore, that 

 there is still much to be learned concerning this species. 



Litchfield, 27 June, 1914, also July and Aug. (L. B. W.). 

 T. subfalcata Van Duzee. 



1912. Telamona subfalcata Van Duzee. Bui. Buff. Soc, x, p. 509. 



This species was described from the Southern States but has 

 been collected in New York and has been taken on white oak at 

 Litchfield by Mr. Woodruff. 



It is easily recognized by the sub falcate posterior margin of 



