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MEMBRA CIDJE. 
Ophiderma salamandra is described by Fairmaire, l.c. p, 493, as brown, and 
variegated with yellow lines. 
Size, 7 nun. 
Habitat .—New York. 
Ophiderma mas appears to be a handsome and spotted species. I have not seen 
either of these two species. The last mentioned is figured in the B.C.A. and 
is there described. Tab. IX. fig. 3. p. 142. 
Dr - F. W. Goding divides the Smiliinae into four tribes, of which Telamonini is 
the last named. 
It there includes six genera, which require a close study, before the numerous 
species contained in them can be located with certainty. 
These genera are according to Goding : 
1. Thelia, Am. et Serv. 4. Optilete, Stfil. 
2. 'Telamona, Fitch. 5. Carynola , Fitch. 
3. Heliria, St§l. 6. Archasia, Stal. 
The genera appear to be principally confined to North America, and are 
synoptically treated by Goding as part of the Homopterous insects of North America. 
Trans. Amer. Entom. Soc.. 1892, p. 258. 
Our knowledge of the group is very scanty as yet. Under the restricted genus 
Telamona, only seven species are described in the Biologia Centrali Americana, but 
the diverse forms of the pronota of these will show how difficult is the task of 
classification simply from their facies, or general aspect. The material at my disposal 
is too small to allow of a criticism of the above arrangement. 
Genus : TELAMONA. Fitch. 
Thelia, Amy. et Serv. p. 540. Fairm. l.c. p. 305. Fowler, l.c. p. 143. 
The species of this group are somewhat numerous, and are as before noticed, 
remarkable for the diverse forms of their pronotum. Stal, on account of this 
characteristic, separated T. crist at a from the rest, but some, like Canon Fowler, 
might think this to be unnecessary. Nevertheless, I have retained Stal's genus 
Heliria, as containing insects extreme in shape, and of more than the usual 
magnitude. 
The neuration of the wings follows that of the Smiliinae, but the allocation of 
the areas of the tegmina is not easily defined. The apical area is small and sessile, 
but often it is little seen. The tegmina have three marked parallel nervures. 
