No. 34-] HEMIPTERA OF CONNECTICUT: MEMBRACIDAE. I9I 



are hyaline and the abdominal segments are brown, margined with 

 paler. 



The nymphs are found on the same host as the adult and appar- 

 ently the time of oviposition and hatching is extended over a 

 considerable period since all stages may be collected at the same 

 time during most of July and August. 



Host: Basswood. 



Wallingford, 22 June, 1912 (D. J. C). 

 T. decorata Ball. 



1903. Telamona decorata Ball. Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvi, 179. PI. i, 

 figs. 6, 6a, 



Probably rare but is occasionally found in the State on red oak, 

 the host on which the species was originally described. The 

 writer has previously recorded this insect (Biol. Memb. Cayuga 

 Lake Basin, p. 264) from both red oak and basswood but Dr. E. D. 

 Ball, the author of the species, states (in correspondence) that the 

 latter host must be accidental as the form is not basswood- 

 inhabiting. 



The species is very close to T. reclruata from which it may be 

 separated by the brown oblique marking extending from the tip 

 of the crest to the lateral margin of the pronotum. The ground 

 color is grayish yellow with the sides of the crest and the above- 

 mentioned band brown. The apex of the posterior process is 

 broadly brown. The tegmina are smoky hyaline with the bases 

 sharply punctate with black, and the apices brown. 



Host: Red oak. 



Stonington, 3 July, 1914 (I. W. D.) ; Guilford, 24 July, 1921 (B. H. W.). 

 T. sinuata Fowler. 



1896. Telamona sinuata Fowler. Biol. Centr. Amer., 144, 4. Tab. 9, 

 figs. 7, 7a. 



This species was described from Mexico and is included by 

 Van Duzee in his Catalogue of Hemiptera as questionably from 

 Arizona. A species which apparently answers Fowler's descrip- 

 tion and figure in all particulars has been taken by the writer in 

 New York and the same species has been collected by Mr. Wood- 

 ruff in Connecticut. Either this is a new species so close to 

 Fowler's species that it cannot be distinguished by the characters 

 given in the literature or T. sinuata has an extremely wide range. 

 It is here included under Fowler's name. 



This is a fine large species, gray, mottled with brown, with an 

 erect well-developed dorsal crest and a long posterior process 

 extending beyond the apices of the tegmina. The life history is 

 not known. 



Hosts : Yellow birch {B. lutea), white poplar (P. alba), quaking 

 aspen (P. tremuloides) . 



Litchfield, July and Sept. (L. B. W.). 



