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dorsal vitta behind the crest which is placed farther back and 

 is more sloping". The crest is elevated as in declivata but con- 

 sists almost entirely of the anterior foliole on the posterior 

 slope of which the hind angle sometimes is indicated. Decli- 

 vata is a larger species its pronotum is more coarsely punc- 

 tured, its apex more produced and acute, and the crest is more 

 vertical, highest anteriorly and slopes posteriorly to the very 

 obvious hind angle, and the fuscous spot at the apex of the 

 elytra is also narrower. Telamona pyramidata inhabits the 

 mountains of Colorado. 



3. Telamona barbata n. sp. 



A small species allied to pyramidata Uhler, with an oval 

 dorsal crest and hirsute surface, at least in fresh examples. 

 The following description is drawn up from the male, the only 

 sex known to me. 



Head short, hirsute, apex of the cheeks strongly sinuated, but little ob- 

 lique; basal suture of the clypeus rounded, rather deeply impressed; its apex 

 continuing the apical contour of the head, not at all or scarcely produced. 

 Pronotum low; humeral angles rounded, little produced; dorsal crest erect, 

 placed on the middle of the dorsal line well behind the humeri, squarish, 

 the anterior and posterior margins sloping about equally, its angles round- 

 ed, especially the anterior; superior edge sloping posteriorly; posterior pro- 

 cess short, slender and acute at apex, reaching about to the base of the 

 terminal areole of the elytra. Length 8 mm. 



Color pale testaceous brownish. Head and metopidium finely punc- 

 tured and irregularly dotted with minute black points and dashes; prono- 

 tum behind the humeri coarsely punctured, most of the punctures brownish. 

 Crest abruptly fuscous brown, its basal margin irregular and edged with 

 pale, its surface either side with a few large drawn pale dots, its hind edge 

 with a broad whitish ray reaching from the upper angle to about one half 

 the length of the posterior process; sometimes the brown on the crest is 

 extended downward along the borders of the pale ray and covers the poste- 

 rior process. Median carina black alternated with white dots on the meto- 

 pidium. Elytra hyaline; very narrowly coriaceous and punctured at base; 

 fuscous cloud broad, covering the whole width of the apex, nervures except 

 at base brown. Beneath pale; the abdomen, tibse and tarsi brownish. 



Described from four males in the Cornell University collec- 

 tion all of which were taken at Ithaca, N. Y. , in June, and 

 Prof. Wickham has sent me a male taken by him last summer 

 at Cloudcroft, N. Mex. This last specimen is much darker in 

 color; the lower surface and legs being almost entirely black; 

 the dark vitta covering the crest and apex of the pronotum is 



