Lawson: Membracid.e of Kansas. 93 



Tegmina almost entirely concealed by pronotum ; exposed costal margins 

 opaque and punctate for basal half, ajncal areas hyaline, tips fuscous. Under- 

 surface of body and femora usually very dark, generally black. Legs flavous. 



Length, 5 mm.; width, 2.5 mm. 



Internal male genitalia. Styles long and slender, the extreme an- 

 terior portion bent strongly laterad, widest opposite connective, the 

 posterior part with distinct apical hook; connective widest at the 

 concave base, the apex truncate; oedagus, viewed laterally, with 

 strong anterior arm which bears two prominent rounded promi- 

 nences, the posterior arm more slender, the apical portion bearing a 

 few indefinite teeth on caudal margin and the apex characteristically 

 retrorsely hooked. 



Distribution. Van Duzee reports this species from Ontario, New 

 York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, 

 Kansas, Arkansas, and Utah. It is also known to occur in Mexico. 

 Specimens have been taken in Kansas in Douglas, Pottawatomie, 

 Riley, and Gove counties. 



Hosts. Funkhouser gives golden rod and skunk cabbage as hosts. 

 Goding mentions Canadian thistle. The writer has taken it in all 

 stages on Ambrosia trifida. 



Publilia reticulata Van Duzee. 



Pxiblilia reticulata Van Duzee, Bui. Buf. Soc. Nat. Sci., ix, p. 106, 1908. 



The following is the original description : 



Closely allied to concava but with the surface of the pronotum reticulated 

 with strong anastomosing rugae in place of the four or five simple longitudinal 

 carinse found in that species. These rugae give the surface a strongly corru- 

 gated or areolated appearance. Surface between the rugae deeply punctured. 

 Metopidiimi more vertical than in concava, the percurrent carina more ele- 

 vated and the dorsal sinus somewhat deeper. Apical margin of the head dis- 

 tinctly sinuated next the eye, then very obtusely arcuated about the apex. 

 Color blackish or fuscous, speckled or blotched more or less with testaceous on 

 the head and front of the pronotum as far as the dorsal sinus; and with a tri- 

 angular whitish testaceous spot on the apical fourth of the lateral margin, 

 which may be prolonged somewhat along the margin anteriorly and indis- 

 tinctly across the disk as an incomplete subapical vitta. Venter, tibiae and 

 tarsi pallid, the disk of the ventral segments more or less black. 



Length, 4 mm. 



Distribution. Van Duzee reports this species from New Jersey, 

 Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Missouri. There is a specimen 

 in the Snow collection from Kansas City, Mo., and it has been taken 

 in Riley county. 



Hosts. Unknown. 



