Lawson: Membracid^ of Kansas. 89 



Distribution. Reported by Van Duzee from New Hampshire, 

 Pennsylvania and Illinois. There arc specimens in the Snow col- 

 lection from Kansas City, Mo., so it undoubtedly occurs in Kansas. 



Hosts. Probably oak. 



Ophiderma fiava Goding. 



Ophiderma fiava Goding, Insect Life, v, p. 93, 1892 (nomen nudum). 

 Ophiderma fiava Goding, Bui. 111. St. Lab. Nat. Hist., iii, p. 439, 1894. 



Funkhouser gives the following technical description: 



Large greenish yellow species, fading to sordid yellow in cabinet specimens; 

 body robust and long; posterior process not reaching apices of tegmina; 

 tegmina h3'aline, brown at base and fuscous-clouded at tips. 



Head much broader than long, green, weakly and sparingly punctate, 

 smooth, shining, sparingly pubescent; eyes large, red; ocelli prominent, red- 

 dish, about equidistant from each other and from the eyes; clypeus smooth, 

 nearh^ black, base regularh' rounded, tip extending below inferior margin of 

 face. 



Pronotum uniform green, in some cases tinged with reddish, closely and 

 densel}^ punctate, finely pubescent; dorsum rounded, depressed behind middle, 

 median carina percurrent; posterior process heavy, tectiform, acute, not ex- 

 tending to tips of tegmina. 



Tegmina hyaline, bases reddish and punctate, tips clouded with fuscous, 

 veins heavy and inclined to be punctate along margin. Legs and undersur- 

 face of body entirely flavous. 



Length, 7-8 mm.; width, 3-4 mm. 



* Distribution. Reported by Van Duzee from Quebec, Massa- 

 chusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Illinois, Michi- 

 gan. There are specimens in the Snow collection from Columbia, 

 Mo., and from Chautauqua county, Kansas. 

 Hosts. Unknown. 



Genus Vanduzea Goding. 

 The members of this genus are distinguished by the transverse 

 and basally truncate terminal cell of the elytra. 

 A single member of the genus is known to occur in Kansas. 



Vanduzea triguttata (Burmeister). 



(PI. VI, figs. 7, 8.) 



Entylia triguttata Burmeister, Silb. Rev. Ent., iv, p, 183, 1836. 



Vanduzea vestita Goding, Insect Life, v, p. 93, 1892. 



Cyrtolobus annexus (Uhl. MS) Townsend, Can. Ent., xxiv, p. 196, 1892. 



The following is Coding's description : 



Head broad, black, perpendicular, triangular, a narrow dusky brown mark 

 on upper edge just below origin of carina. Eyes prominent; ocelli equidistant 

 from each other and the eyes. Front of prothorax blackish brown, fading 

 posteriorly to a reddish brown in a triangular form, the apex of which reaches 



