Lawson: Membracid^ of Kansas. 87 



Funkhouscr gives the following technical description: 



Yellowish tinged with red; transverse band of pronotuni often absent; 

 pronotum long; head slightly projecting forward; eyes tinged with reddish; 

 posterior process reaching tijxs of tegniina ; teginina entirely hyaline or 

 faintlj' clouded with yellow. 



Head slightly protruding forward, j-ellow with red punctures, sculptured, 

 not pubescent; base irregularly sinuate; eyes gray marked with red; ocelli 

 small, translucent, somewhat nearer to each other than to the eyes; clypeus 

 swollen, convex, continuing inferior outline of face, tip slightly extended, 

 hairy; antenme prominent. 



Pronotum yellowish with irregular reddish areas, deeply and roughly 

 punctate, not pubescent; transverse band when present pale with reddish 

 borders; humeral angles weak, blunt; dorsal crest elliptical, very slight sinus 

 before base of posterior process, compressions not deep; posterior process 

 heavj-, blunt, just reaching tips of tegmina. 



Tegmina hyaline or clouded with reddish yellow, tips pale, veins in some 

 cases yellowish, bases and costal areas irregularly punctate. Legs and under- 

 surface of thorax flavous; abdomen sordid yellow. 



Length, 6 mm.; width, 2.8 mm. 



Distribution. Reported hy Van Duzee from Quebec, Rhode 

 Island, New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois. In the Snow col- 

 lection there are specimens from Kansas City, Mo., and some taken 

 in Douglas county, Kansas. The writer took a specimen at St. 

 Paul, ]\Iinn. 



Genus Ophiderma Fairmaire. 



Tlie members of this genus have a compressed and rounded dor- 

 sum which entirely lacks a crest. 



It is represented in Kansas by three species, which may be sep- 

 arated by the following key: 



KEY TO SPECIES. 



A. Color, browTi or mottled. 



B. Species smaller, mottlings more distinct. salamandra. 



BB. Species larger, mottling dull. flaviguttula. 



AA. Color, green or yellowish green. flava. 



Ophiderma salamandra Fairmaire. 



(PI. VI, figs. \ 2.) 

 Ophiderma salamandra Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser. 2, iv, p. 493, 1846. 



Funkhouser gives the following technical description: 

 Large brown species; dorsum rounded and very pubescent with short, black, 

 bristly hairs; posterior process short, suddenly acute, not reaching apices of 

 tegmina; tegmina hyaline, bases and costal areas strongly punctate, tips 

 clouded with fuscous, veins very prominent ; under part of body dark ; males 

 smaller and darker than females. 



