I9 2 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



T. dubiosa Van Duzee. 



1894. Telamona irrorata Goding. Cat. Memb. N. A., 418. 71. 

 1916. Telamona dubiosa Van Duzee. Check List Hem., 59. 1634. 



Probably rare. A gray and brown species near the preceding 

 but smaller and with the hind margin of the dorsal crest more 

 nearly perpendicular. Characterized by the irregular brown dots 

 on a gray or sordid yellow background. The tegmina are hyaline 

 with bases and apices clouded with brown. 



Host: White oak. 



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



Archasia Stal. 



An interesting genus because it is one of the few in the United 

 States which show the broad, compressed, leaf-like expansion of 

 the pronotum suggestive of the tropical forms of the type genus 

 Membracis. The colors of the insects of this genus are not 

 brilliant, however, being usually green or brown with few 

 markings. One species at least is found in Connecticut. 

 A. belfragei Stal. 



1869. Archasia belfragei Stal. Bid. Memb. Kan., 250. 



Probably rare. Easily recognized by the very foliaceous prono- 

 tum which is green in life and fades to yellowish in cabinet 

 specimens. The pronotum is high and strongly flattened with the 

 dorsal margin brown. The tegmina are about half concealed by 

 the pronotum and the posterior process does not reach the apices 

 of the tegmina. The life history is not known. 



Hosts : Locust, white oak. 



Guilford, 13 Juiy, 1920 (B. H. W.). 



Smilia Germar. 



Somewhat resembling the preceding genus in that the pronotum 

 is compressed and flattened but easily distinguished by the fact 

 that the terminal cell of the hind wing is triangular and petioiate. 

 One species is recorded from the State. 

 S. camelus (Fabricius). (PL iv, 21.) 



1803. Membracis camelus Fabricius. Syst. Rhyng., 10, No. 18. 



1843. Smilia vittata Amyot and Serville. Hem., 539. 



1846. Tliclia camelus Fairmaire. Rev. Memb., 308. 7. PI. 5, figs. 5, 8, 9. 



1851. Smilia guttata Fitch. Cat. Ins. N. Y., 49. 



1893. Smilia belulae Goding. Can. Ent., xxv, 196. 



Common. Perhaps the most brilliantly marked of all of the 

 local species of Membracidae. The ground color of the high 

 flattened pronotum is brown — chocolate in the female and black- 

 brown in the male — with a broad diagonal slash of bright nile- 

 green extending from the cephalic dorsal apex to the middle of 

 the lateral margin. The pronotum is high and foliaceous and 



