Lawsox: Membracid^ of Kansas. 73 



Color. Face and pronotiini pale yellow, very slightly washed with brown 

 in the female, and with a definite brown shade in the male; median carina 

 alternately light and dark l^efore the iiuni)). Hiimii rieli testaceous with a few 

 light spots on the sides, a definite light mark at the base in front, which may 

 extend up on to the carina, and the whole posterior margin light. This latter 

 light spot extends down on to the pronotum and connects with an irregular 

 transverse light band about halfway to apex. Each side of this band is an 

 irregular testaceous band, the anterior one connected with the testaceous 

 hump. A pair of spots above the eyes and the apex of elytra brownish fuscous. 



Distnbution. Ball described this species from specimens taken 

 in Iowa, Arkansas, and Pottawatomie county, Kansas. Fimkhouser 

 reports it from New York. 



Hosts. Ball mentions red oak as a host. 



Telamona querci Fitch. 



Telamona querci Fitch, Homop. N. Y. St. Cab., p. 51, 1851. 



Telamona quercus Walker, List Homop., iv, p. 1145, 1852. 



TheUa quercus Smith, Cat. Ins. N. J., edn. 1, p. 441, 1891. 



Telamona brunneipcntiis Buckton, Monog. Membr., p. 197, pi. 43, fig. 1, 1903. 



Funkhouscr gives the following technical description: 



Very close to T. monticola; pronotum shorter, darker; dorsal crest with 

 prominent pale fascia on posterior margin; tegmina nearh' hyaline, tips 

 faintly clouded. 



Head roughly sculptured, flavous mottled with brown, faintly longitudinally 

 striate, ^■erJ' faintly punctate, pubescent, base weakly sinuate; eyes prominent, 

 dark bro^Mi; ocelli very prominent, protruding, brownish, margins pale, much 

 nearer to each other than to the eyes ; clypeus nearly flat, punctate, pubescent, 

 base marked with brown, tip extended below inferior margin of face. 



Pronotum densely but finely punctate, sparingly pubescent, dark brown 

 mottled with green; metopidium convex, median carina prominent, black in- 

 terrupted with pale green ; humeral angles short and blunt ; dorsal crest sloping 

 backward, longer than high, higher before than behind, posterior margin dis- 

 tinctly pale; posterior process short, acute, marked with greenish before apex, 

 not reaching tips of tegmina. 



Tegmina hyaline, bases punctured but not pubescent, tips clouded with 

 brown, veins brown. Undersurface of body brown. Legs flavous; tibiae haiiy. 



Length of pronotum, 9 mm.; to tips of tegmina, 11 mm.; width, 5.5 mm. 



Distribution. Van Duzee reports this species from Ontario, New 

 York. District of Columbia, Ohio, Colorado, New Mexico, and Ne- 

 vada. Popenoe reports this species from Kansas, and there is a 

 specimen in the Snow collection from Kansas City, Mo., so that it 

 doubtless occurs in the state. The writer took a single specimen of 

 the species at St. Paul, Minn. 



Hosts. Funkhouser gives white and chestnut oak as hosts. 



