Lawson: Membracid.e of Kansas. 71 



give Cottonwood and Virginia creeper. The writer has taken it 

 abundantly on willow. 



Tlie writer has been unable to find any characters that would 

 seem to separate this species from the members of the genus Tela- 

 mona. The genitalia are precisely as in other members of the 

 genus. Hence it is our belief that the genus Telonaca should be 

 sunk as a synonym of Telamona. 



Telamona viridia Ball. 



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

 Telamona viridia Ball, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvi, p. 178, pi. 1, fig. 3, 1903. 



The original description follows: 



Resembling pyramidata in size and form, but with less of a hump. Grass- 

 green, the male with some fuscous on posterior half of hump and again at 

 apex of pronotum. 



Length: female, 11 mm.; male, 9 mm. Width, female, 5.3 mm. 



Pronotal hump in the shape of an obtuse pyramid one-third the distance 

 back from eye to apex of pronotum, a slight angle on posterior margin just 

 below apex especially marked in the male. Height of hump slightly less than 

 one-third the pronotal length. Humeral angles broad, slightly rounded, a 

 trifle longer than eye. 



Color. Female, grass-green slightly mottled with yellow; carina light ex- 

 cept at apex of hump and at tip, where it is tawny. Male, grass-green; carina 

 light interrupted with tawny; a fuscous band nans obliquely backward from 

 apex of hump and fades out before reaching the pronotum proper, or some- 

 times connects with a tawny spot on lower margin, whole apex of pronotum 

 tawny. 



Internal male genitalia. Styles large, anterior end flattened, pos- 

 terior part stout, curved strongly laterad apically, bluntly hooked, 

 and bearing a few scattered hairs; connective large, heart-shaped, 

 with three longitudinal ridges; oedagus, view^ed laterally, U-shaped, 

 anterior arm more lightly chitinized and with short blunt anterior 

 tooth, posterior arm club-shaped, the apex anteriorly with many 

 small filelike teeth, posteriorly with the functional orifice. 



Distribution. Ball reports the type specimens from Colorado, 

 Iowa and Illinois. There is a specimen in the Snow collection, taken 

 by F. X. Williams, from Gove county, and a single specimen has 

 been taken in Riley county, Kansas. 



Hosts. Ball gives cottonwood {Populus monilifera) as the host. 



Telamona obsoleta Ball. 



Telamona obsoleta Ball, Proc. Biol. Soc. Wash., xvi, p. 178, pi. 1, fig. 2, 1903. 



The following is the original description: 



Resembling irrorata, but smaller and with a smaller and more rounding 

 hump. Length: female, 10 mm.; male, 9 mm. Width, 5 mm. 



