Lawson: Membracid.e of Kansas. 77 



Teginina hyaline, lightly punctate at base and along costal margins, tips 

 brown. Undersurface of body generally uniform gray-brown. 



Male smaller and darker than female, often without characteristic markings. 



Length: female, 10 mm.; male, 8-9 mm. Width: female, 6 mm.; male, 

 5 mm. 



Distribution. This species has been reported from Massachusetts, 

 New York, New Jersey, Maryland, North Carolina, Illinois, Kansas 

 and Colorado. It has been taken in Kansas in Riley, Leavenworth 

 and Douglas counties. 



Hosts. Occurs only on Psedera quinquefolia, our common Virigina 

 creeper. 



Genus Telamonanthe Baker. 



The members of this genus greatly resemble those of the preced- 

 ing genus in general appearance, but they are smaller insects as a 

 rule and are all characterized by having the basal costal cell of the 

 tegmina completely punctate. 



One species of the genus has been taken in Kansas and another at 

 Kansas City, Mo., so that both doubtless occur in the state. 



These species may be separated by the following key: 



KEY TO SPECIES. 



A. Crest nearly quadrate, humeral angles very long. rileyi. 



A A. Crest rounded, humeral angles short. modesta. 



Telamonanthe rileyi (Coding). 



Telamona rileyi Coding, Ent. News, iii, p. 108, 1892. 



Telamona coqnilletti Coding, Bui. 111. St. Lab. Nat. Hist., iii, p. 420, 1894. 



Telamotmnlhe rileyi Baker, Can. Ent., xxxix, p. 115, 1907. 



The original description follows: 



Similar in size and form to coquilletti Coding; the markings are less promi- 

 nent, lateral horns much less produced. 



Male. Greenish yellow, marked with ferruginous lines, punctured. Head 

 greenish j'ellow, lightly punctured. Prothorax yellowish green, mottled with 

 ferruginous, longitudinal, elevated lines; dorsal carina percurrent, a deeply 

 impressed dot on each side of its base; dorsal crest somewhat elevated, much 

 compressed, strongly compressed anteriorly at base and posteriorly behind 

 middle, the highest point of crest at beginning of postesior third, from which 

 point it gradually slopes anteriorly in a gentle curve continuous with anterior 

 third of prothorax, posteriorly sloping for a short distance, then forming an 

 obtuse angle; at the base another obtuse angle is formed, from which the 

 median carina curves gently to the apex; lateral angles a little prominent; 

 tegmina with basal half coriaceous, apical half subcoriaceous, a brown spot at 

 apex. Chest below is dark yellow, coxae piceous. Legs yellow and hairy; 

 abdomen yellow. Length, 6 mm. 



Habitat: Mario county, Cal. 



