Lawson: Membracid.e of Kansas. 79 



Pronotuni cioscly bvit weakly piinctatp, not pubescent; humeral angles 

 small, triangular; dorsal crest very high, flattened, foliaceous, almost vertical 

 above head, slightly concave above head, posterior margin gradually hollowed 

 out before apex of posterior process, entire dorsal margin flattened and uni- 

 formly brown. 



Tegmina smoky iiyaline, bases and costal margins punctate, tips strongly 

 marked with brown. Understirface of body yellow-brown; abdomen brown 

 Legs dull yellow-brown; tibiae pubescent. 



Length, 9 mm.; width, 4.5 mm.; height of pronotum, 5 mm. 



Distribution. Van Duzee reports this species from Ontario, 

 Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, Illinois and 

 Michigan. There is a specimen in the Snow collection from Kansas 

 City, Mo., so it undoubtedly occurs in Kansas also. 



Hosts. Funkhouser gives locust and oak as hosts. 



Archasia galeata (Fabricius.) 



Mefnbracis galeata Fabricius, Syst. Rhyng., p. 9, 1803. 



Thelia yaleata Fairniaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser. 2, iv, p. 309, 1846. 



Smilia auriciUata Emmons, Nat. Hist. N. Y. Ins., p. 153, pi. 3, fig. 12, 1854. 



The following describes this species: 



Green, fading to yellowish in cabinet specimens; pronotum very high and 

 strongh' foliaceous, dorsal margin concolorous or spotted with brown; tegmina 

 about half concealed by pronotimi ; posterior process not reaching apices of 

 tegmina. 



Head shghtly longer than in preceding species, smooth, sparingly pubescent; 

 base high and sinuate; eyes very prominent, shining dark brown; ocelli pearly, 

 prominent, nearer to each other than to the eyes. 



Pronotum closely but distinctly punctate, sparsely pubescent; humeral an- 

 gles smaller and more rounded than in preceding species and the dorsal crest 

 higher, not concave above the head, with posterior margin not at all concava 

 before apex of posterior process, the entire dorsal margin strongly flattened. 



Tegmina smoky hyaline, bases and costal margins punctate, tips slightly 

 darker. Entire undereurface and legs yellowish-brown, the tibiae pubescent. 



Length, 9-11 mm.; width, 4.5-5 mm.; height of pronotum, 6 mm. 



Distribution. Van Duzee reports this species from Ontario, New 

 York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, 

 Illinois, Iowa, Colorado, Utah and Texas. Specimens are at hand 

 from Douglas, Riley, Miami and Cowley counties, Kansas. 



Hosts. Coding mentions Eupatorium, Verbena hastata and oak. 



Genus Smilia Germar. 



The members of this genus are of the same general shape as those 

 of the preceding, because of the foliaceous dorsum, but the terminal 

 cell of the hind wing is not sessile and truncate, but petiolate and 

 triangular. 



A single species occurs in Kansas. 



