Lawson: Mkmbracid.e of Kansas. 83 



Distribution. Hitherto reported only from New York. Specimens 

 have been taken, however, at Kansas City, Mo., and so it may safely 

 be included in the Kansas fauna. 



Hosts. Funkhouser reports it from white oak. 



Cyrtolobus tuberosus (Fairmaire). 



Thelia tuberosus Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser. 2, iv, p. 307, 1846. 

 Cyrtolobus tuberosus Goding, Bui. III. St. Lab. Nat. Hist., iii, p. 433, 1894. 



Funkhouser gives the following technical description: 



Largest species of the genus; brown mottled with darker brown; dorsal 

 compression strikingl}- transparent; dorsal crest situated well back on prono- 

 tuni. posterior process very short; tegmina smoky hyaline tipped with brown. 



Head triangular, broader than long, ochraceous tinged with red and punc- 

 tate with brown, not pubescent; base weakly sinuate; inferior margin of face 

 strongly sinuate; eyes large, brown; ocelli small, yellowish, slightly protrud- 

 ing, nearer to each other than to the eyes; clj'peus convex, brown line on each 

 side, tip extended and hairy. 



Pronotum deeply and closely punctate, light greenish brown; crest dark 

 brown with pale compression at anterior base, in the middle, and at posterior 

 base; middle compression veiy large and transparent, posterior half of crest 

 dark brown with color extending in a dark band to margin of pronotum; 

 metopidium very convex, median carina prominent; humeral angles promi- 

 nent, rounded; posterior process short, sharp, brown, inferior lateral margin 

 slightly sinuate, not reaching tips of tegmina. 



Tegmina brownish h3-aline, tips strongly marked with brown, bases punc- 

 tate. Undersurface of thorax yellow. Legs ferruginous, hind trochanters 

 marked with brown; tarsi flavous; claws brown. 



Length, 9.5 mm.; width, 4 mm. Male smaller than female, but similarly 

 colored. 



Distribution. Reported by Van Duzee from Massachusetts, New 

 York, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi and Illinois. 

 There is a specimen in the Snow collection from Kansas City, Mo., 

 so it is sure to occur in Kansas. 



Hosts. Funkhouser reports it from red oak and hickory. 



Cyrtolobus griseus Van Duzee. 



Cyrtolobus griseus Van Duzee, Bui. Buf. Soc. Nat. Sci., ix, p. 90, 1908. 



The following is the original description : 



This form, which is very near ciner'eus, is of an almost uniform dark cinerous, 

 closely punctured with fuscous. The only conspicuous marking is the oblique 

 blackish vitta which in cinercus bounds the hind margin of the anterior oblique 

 vitta. Before and behind this brown band or line the surface is a little lighter 

 and there is a suggestion of the median dorsal spot and transverse posterior 

 vitta. In some specimens there is an arcuated longitudinal brown vitta on 

 either side of the metopidium. Here the elytra are hyaline with the costal 

 base ferruginous grey and punctured, and the apex has a small fuscous cloud. 



