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very large, club-f^haped, tlie runctional orilice just before the ex- 

 treme apex, the anterior aspeet of the apex with many filelike teeth. 



Distribution. Van Duzee reports this species from Ontario, 

 Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Car- 

 olina, Ohio and Illinois. The writer has taken it in Douglas county, 

 Kansas. 



Hosts. Black locust seems to be the only host. 



Genus Glossonotus Butler. 

 The members of this genus possess a tongue-shaped crest, which 

 arises from between the humeral angles. 



A single species of the genus is recorded from Kansas. 



Glossonotus acuminatus (Fabricius). 



Membracis acuminata Fabricius, Syst. Ent., P. 675, 1775. 



Cicada acuminata Ginelin in Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., edn. 13. i, pt. 4, 2094, 1778. 



Centrotus acuminata Fabricius, Syst. Rliyng., p. 18, 1803. 



Thelia acuminata Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser. 2, iv, p. 310, pi. 5, fig. 15, 1846. 



Hemiptycha acuminata Harris, Treat. Ins. Inj. A'eg., edn. 3, p. 223, 1862. 



Telamona acuminatus Stal, Hemip. Fabr., ii, p. 115, 1869. 



Glossonotus acuminata Butler, Cist. Ent., ii, p. 222, 1877. 



Thelia crataegi Smith, Ins. N. J., p. 441, 1890. 



Funkliouser gives the following technical description: 



Dark gray mottled with brown; dorsal crest high, flattened and swollen at 

 tip; humeral angles prominent and triangular; tegmina hyaline tipped with 

 brown, veins punctured. 



Head almost as long as wide, gray with distinct scattered black punctures 

 and fine whitish pubescence; base sinuate; eyes large, prominent, brown, 

 extending as far as bases of humeral angles; ocelli large, prominent, pearly 

 with white margins, nearer to each other than to the eyes; clypeus continuing 

 inferior line of face, punctate with black, pubescent with white, tip prolonged 

 into a point; antennae long and well developed. 



Pronotum dark gray with irregular markings of brown, coarsely and regu- 

 larh' punctate with black, very sparingly pubescent; metopidium convex, 

 median carina prominent and decorated with alternate lines of brown and 

 yellowish, irregular black markings above internal angles of eyes, humeral 

 angles prominent, triangular, flattened, acute; pronotal crest almost as high 

 as length of pronotum, widened and flattened at tip, margin decorated with 

 pale areas,- projecting usually forward as well as upward; posterior process 

 gradually acuminate, reaching apices of tegmina. 



Tegmina hyaline, tips clouded with smoky brown, bases and margins of 

 veins punctate, veins prominent. Undersurface of thorax fuscous; abdomen 

 ferruginous. Legs fuscous marked with brown. 



Length. 10 mm.; width between tips of humeral angles, 6 mm. 



Distribution. Van Duzee reports this species from Ontario, Mas- 

 sachusetts, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Iowa, 

 Kansas and Arkansas. 



Hosts. Funkhouser gives young white oak as the host. 



