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testaceous in color. The crest is very high and almost square with 

 a whitish vitta on the posterior margin. The tegmina are tipped 

 with brown and there is sometimes a brownish or fuscous spot 

 on the metopidium above each eye and another below each humeral 

 angle. 



The life history is not known. 



Hosts : White oak, red oak. 



Portland, 14 July, 1914 (M. P. Z.). 



T. monticola (Fabricius). 



1803. Memhracis monticola Fabricius. Syst. Rhyng., 7, No. 4. 

 1869. Telamona monticola Stal. Hem. Fabr., ii, 115. 

 1903. Telamona brunneipennis Buckton. Mon, Memb., 197, pi. 43, figs. 

 I, la. 



Not common. A large robust species; concolorous brown, 

 spotted with greenish; dorsal crest high, rounded, greenish or 

 whitish posteriorly; posterior process not reaching tips of tegmina; 

 tegmina punctate at base, brown at tips. 



There is one specimen in the collection of the Connecticut 

 Agricultural Experiment Station without date or locality label 

 which was presumably collected in the State. 



Hosts : White oak, swamp white oak. 



T. tristis Fitch. 



1 85 1. Telamona tristis Fitch. Cat. Ins. N. Y., 51. 

 185 1. Telamona coryli Fitch. Cat. Ins. N. Y., 51. 

 1894. Telamona spreta Coding. Cat. Memb, N. A., 417. 



Presumably common in Connecticut on white oak but has 

 seldom been reported. Described from New York and has been 

 often reported from Pennsylvania, New York and New Jersey 

 northward to Canada. 



A small well-marked species with high square crest which is 

 higher before than behind and is distinctly marked anteriorly with 

 fuscous and posteriorly with a brown vitta which breaks at the 

 base and then runs straight to the lateral margins. The whole 

 pronotum is rather conspicuous because of its mottled colors. 

 The tegmina are hyaline with the bases opaque and punctate and 

 the tips brown. 



Hosts: White oak, hazel, witchhazel, basswood, black oak, red 

 oak. 



New Haven, 6 July, 1904 (H. L. V.). 

 T. ampelopsidis (Harris). 



1833. Membracis cissi Harris. List. Ins. Mass. (MS. name). 



1841. Membracis ampelopsidis Harris. Kept. Ins. Mass., 180. 



1846. Thelia cyrtops Fairmaire. Rev. Memb., 310. 17. PI. 5, fig. 13. 



1851. Telamona ampelopsidis Fitch. Cat. Ins. N. Y,, 51. 



1877. Telamona cyrtops Butler. Cist. Ent, ii, 222, No. 11. 



Very abundant on Virginia creeper (Psedera quinque folia) 

 formerly placed in the genus Ampclopsis from which the specific 

 name of the insect was derived. Probably the commonest species 



