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Rare but at once recognized when found by the bright yellow 

 band which bounds the lateral margin of the pronotum in both 

 sexes. Nothing is known of its hosts, habits or life history. 



Ophiderma Fairmaire. 



A genus characterized by the rounded dorsum which shows no 

 evidences of a ridge or crest. Most of the species are very hairy. 



Key to Species. 



1. Color brown, gray or brown-mottled 2 



Color green or yellowish green flava 



2. Pronotum with lateral stripe 3 



Pronotum without lateral stripe 4 



3. Lateral stripe bright yellow, broad and straight flavicephala 



Lateral stripe gray or greenish, narrow and wavy flaviguttula 



4. Size small, 5-6 mm 5 



Size large, 7-8 mm salamandra 



5. Brown with yellow markings pubescens 



Gray and white with black markings grisea 



O. flava Coding. 



1892. Ophiderma flava Coding. Insect Life, v. 93. 



Probably rare. Occasionally taken by beating low shrubs and 

 bushes but the particular host for oviposition is not known. Mr. 

 Woodruff states in correspondence, that about Litchfield he has 

 taken it usually on red oak. 



The females are immaculate light green in color, fading to 

 sordid yellow in cabinet specimens. The body is long and robust, 

 the posterior process not reaching the apices of the tegmina which 

 are hyaline with brown bases and fuscous-clouded tips. I have 

 never seen an undoubted male of this species. 



The life history is not known. 



Hosts : Red oak, white oak, scarlet oak. 



Westville, 2 June, 1906 (W. E. B.) ; New Haven, 14. 28 June, 1920 

 (B. H. W.). 

 O. flavicephala Coding. 



1892, Ophiderma flazncephala Coding. Insect Life, v. 92. 



Probably common in Connecticut and at once recognized by the 

 broad yellow lateral band on or near the margin of the pronotum. 



The pronotum is densely pubescent and punctate, broadly con- 

 vex, and gradually sloping from the humeral region. The pos- 

 terior process almost reaches the tips of the tegmina which are 

 hyaline with the bases and tips brown. 



The life history is not known and no specific host has been 

 recorded. 



New Haven, 18 June, 1918 (M. P. Z.) ; 28 May, 1921 (B. H. W.) ; 

 Hamden, 30 May, 1921 (B. H. W.). 



