Lawson: Membracid.e of Kansas. 75 



Pronotal hump vpry high, almost quadrate, occupying the anterior three- 

 fifths of pronotum, anterior margin rising perpendicularly from face, crest 

 highest just back of the well rounded anterior angle from which it slopes 

 slightly to the almost perpendicular posterior face. Humeral angles moderate, 

 as long as the eyes. 



Color: Greenish testaceous; a spot above each eye and the median carina 

 back to the posterior angle of hump fuscous; posterior face of hump broadly 

 marked with creamy white, which narrows to a hne on the carina posteriorly 

 in the female, and disappeai-s entirely in the male. The lower margin of the 

 humeral angles is sometimes marked with fuscous. 



Distribution. This species was described from specimens taken in 

 Iowa, and Marion comity, Kansas. Van Duzee reports it also from 

 Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Jersey. 



Hosts. Ball gives oak as a host. 



Telamona collina (Walker). 



Thelia collina Walker, List Homop., ii, p. 565, 1851. 



Telamona collina Butler, Cist. Ent., ii, p. 220, 1877. 



Telamona turritella Buckton, Monog. Membr., p. 198, pi. 44, fig. 6, 1903. 



The following is the original description: 



Testacea vel viridi-flava; prothorax ai)ice niger; carina ferruginea vel fulva; 

 alse limpidse; alae anticte basi fulv». 



Testaceous, shining: head finely punctured, short, almost transversely 

 spindle-shaped, much narrower than the fore-chest, impressed on each side of 

 the disk, with five slight undulations along the hind border, and seven on the 

 fore border; a slight fuiTow extends from the hind border to the face, whose 

 hind side is slightly obconical and occupies less than half the length of the 

 face: fore-chest roughly punctured, convex and with a slight middle ridge 

 in front, forming on each shoulder a conical, flat, very prominent horn; keel 

 veiy deep behind the shoulders, conical and slightly inclined forward, veined 

 along the lower side, slightly undulating and declining abruptly along half 

 its length, straight and slightly attenuated from thence to the tip, which is 

 black and extends far beyond the tip of the abdomen; ridge mostly ferrugin- 

 ous; sides slightly tumid; wings colorless; veins tawny; fore-wings partly 

 brown along the hind borders and at the tips, tawny and punctured towards 

 the base. Length of the body, 4 lines; of the wings, 10 lines. 



New York. 



Var. /3. Head and fore part of the fore-chest pale yellow tinged with green ; 

 keel ta\\Tiy, partly green; legs tinged with green; oviduct pitchy, curved. 



St. John's Bluff, E. Florida. 



Distribution. Van Duzee reports this species from New York, 

 Pennsylvania and Florida. It has also been taken in Johnson 

 county, Kansas. 



Hosts. Mrs. Slosson and Van Duzee report it from sycamore. 



