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ferruginous sides by the pale lateral line wliich nearly attains the apex of the 

 horns. Legs and beneath t'(M-ruginous, the femora darker. Last ventral seg- 

 ment of the female a \ tM y little oblique and roimded to the median notch, 

 whirli is triangular. acut(\ and reaches the middle of the segment. Plates of 

 tlie male not attaming the apex of the anal tube. Elytra almost hyaline, not 

 smoky brown as in dircrus, nervures ferruginous. Length, 8-9 mm. 



Distribution. Van Duzee reports this species from Ontario, New 

 York, and Kansas. Matauscli took specimens in New Jersey. Tlie 

 Kansas specimens were taken at Effingham, Atchison county. 



Hosts. Matausch gives Viburnum as a host. 



Ceresa palmcri Van Duzee. 

 (PI. in, fig^. 3, 4.) 



Ceresa palmeri \'aii Duzee, Can. Ent., xl, ii. 114, 1908. 



Funkhouser gives tlie follo\ving technical description: 



Near Ceresa constarus, but differing particularh- in shape of the supra^ 

 humeral horns, which are short, terete, and but little recurved; small, reddish 

 species, with jironotum rather high, not pubescent. 



Head wider than long, yellowish, only fain>tly sculptured, not punctate; 

 eyes prominent, reddish with white borders, extending beyond adjoining lat- 

 eral margins of pronotum ; ocelli not prominent, pearly with reddish margins, 

 nearer to each other than to the eyes; clypeus continuing lateral margin of 

 face, swollen and pubescent at tip. 



Pronotum yellow-green, very strongly marked with brown and reddish; 

 dorsal crest curved, strongly marked with red; lateral semicircular impression 

 faint, area within it lighter in color than surrounding pronotum; posterior 

 process slightly curved downward, about reaching tip of abdomen but not 

 extending halfway to extremities of tegmina. 



Tegmina hyaline, wrinkled, bases slightly punctate. L^ndersurface of body 

 yellowish. Legs concolorous 3'ellow-green in life, fading to pale yellow in 

 cabinet specimens. 



Length, 8 mm.; width. 3.5 mm. 



Internal male genitalia. Styles large and stout, widest just 

 caudad of attachment to connective, then broad until suddenly 

 narrowed to the acute apex, caudal third with a fringe of long 

 hairs extending nearly to the apex on the outer margin, but stop- 

 ping considerably cephalad of the apex mesally ; connective elongate 

 heart-shaped; cedagus, viewed laterally, with dorsal process of 

 medium width, ventral process more heavily chitinized and quite 

 stout until near the quite acute apex, the membrane guarding the 

 functional orifice large and about midway between the base and 

 apex of the process. 



Distribution. Van Duzee reports this species from Ontario, New 

 York and North Carolina. Specimens have been taken in Kansas 

 in Linn, Bourbon. Hodgeman and Cowley counties. 



