Lawson: Membracid^ of Kansas. 63 



veins heav}^ ami black; wide apiral border; bat>al third i)iinctate. Undersur- 

 face of body pale. Legs yellowish, tarsi fuscous. 



Length to apices of tegmina, 4.5 mm.; width between humeral angles, 2 mm. 



Internal male genitalia. Styles small, anterior portion slender, 

 then wide opposite connective and narrowing again to the rather 

 slender apical portions, which are strongly hooked, bear a few hairs, 

 and end in an acute apex; connective comparatively large, semi- 

 circular; cedagus, viewed laterally, quite large, anterior process 

 smaller and ending acutely, posterior process very large and ending 

 obtusely. 



Distribution. Van Duzee reports this species from Ontario, 

 Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, District of Columbia, 

 North Carolina, Florida, Mississippi, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri, Colo- 

 rado, and Utah. Miss Branch reports it from Douglas county, 

 Kansas. 



Hosts. Miss Branch gives Ambrosia trifida as a host. 



Genus Micrutalis Fowler. 



The members of this genus are small and have but four apical 

 cells in the tegmina, the veins of which are very obscure. 

 A single member of the genus occurs in Kansas. 



Micrutalis calva (Say). 



(PI. V, figs. 3, 4.) 



Meinbracis calva Say, Jl. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi. p. 242, 1830; Conipl. Writ., ii, p. 376. 



Membracis melanogranuna Perty, Del. An. Art., pi. 35, fig. 10, 1834. 



Smilia flavipennis Germar, Silb. Rev. Ent., iii, p. 240, 1835. 



Acutalis flavipennis Fairmaire, Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser. 2, iv, p. 497, 1846. 



Ceresa calva Walker, List Homop., iv, p. 1141, 1852. 



Acutalis melanogramma Walker, List Homop., ii, p. 591, 1851. 



Acutalis calva Fitch, Trans. N. Y. St. Agr. Soc, xvi, p. 391, 1856. 



Acutalis illinoiensis Coding, Can. Ent., xxv, p. 53, 1893. 



Micrutalis illinoiensis Baker, Can. Ent., xxxix, p. 116, 1907. 



Micrutalis calva Baker, Can. Ent., xxxix, p. 116, 1907. 



Funkhouser gives the following technical description: 



Very minute; one of the smallest species of Membracidae in the United 

 States; usually strongl^v marked with black, although color is variable; abdo- 

 men j-ellowish; tegmina hyaline, veins very indistinct. 



Head broad, smooth, hghtly punctate, not pubescent, upper third black, 

 lower two-thirds 3'ellowish; eyes prominent, white or gray; ocelli not promi- 

 nent, pearly, about equidistant from each other and from the eyes and situated 

 slightly above an imaginary line drawn through centers of eyes; clypeus 

 rounded, continuing sinuate outline of inferior margin of face. 



Pronotum low, nearlj^ flat, finelj' punctate, not pubescent, anterior part 

 usually black, tip of posterior proce-ss generally pale; posterior process stout, 

 triangular, just reaching internal angles of tegmina and not extending as far 

 as tip of abdomen. 



