Lawson: Membracid.e of Kansas. 61 



process, the ventral process with a distinct tubercle to connective 

 and wide till the end of the functional orifice, then suddenly nar- 

 rowed, after which it is nearly parallel-margined to the apex. 



Distribution. Seemingly most abundant in the eastern United 

 States as shown by the following records given by Van Duzee: On- 

 tario, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, District 

 of Columbia, North Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Illinois. There 

 are specimens of this species in the Snow collection from Beaver 

 Creek, Montana, thus extending its range westward. 



The following Kansas counties have yielded specimens: Linn, 

 Montgomery, Neosho, Riley and Douglas. 



Hosts. Matausch reports this species from Solidago; Funkhouser 

 from oak and daisy ; Coding from wheat. 



Stictocephala festina (Say). 



(PI. HI, figs. 5, 6.) 



Membracis festina Say, Jl. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., vi, p. 243, 1830; Compl. Writ., ii, p. 

 377. 



Stictocephala festiva Walker, List Honiop., iv, p. 1141, 1852. 

 Stictocephala uniformis Stal, Hemip. Fabr., ii, p. 24, 1809. 

 Stictocephala festina Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xw-i, p. 246, 1869. 



The following is the original description: 



Thorax with a subacute Hne each side before, meeting behind the middle. 



Inhabits Florida. 



Body yellowish-green; thorax unarmed, carinate behind; at tip attenuated, 

 subulate and complying with the general cunature ; each side before a carinate 

 line, meeting together at the carina behind the middle, with the carina tinged 

 nith rufous; front of the thorax not altogether flat, but a little convex; heme- 

 lytra, three temiinal cellules unequal; the two costal ones equal, as broad as 

 long; the inner one not Qb\'iousl3- larger than the others together, somewhat 

 longer than broad. Length to tip of hemelytra one-fifth of inch. The lateral 

 prominent lines of the unarmed thorax, separate this species from all those 

 I have described excepting goniphera, which meet before the middle of the 

 length of the back. 



Internal male genitalia. Styles quite small, anterior portion 

 smaller than posterior, converging posteriorly to the wide posterior 

 portions, which, opposite the connective, have a distinct lateral an- 

 gle and then narrow but slightly to the obtuse apices, each bearing 

 a long outer row and a short mesal row of stout hairs; connective 

 quite small and triangular; cedagus, viewed laterally, quite charac- 

 teristic, the dorsal process ending in a large rounded lobe which 

 bears a small, fingerlike terminal process, the ventral process ending 

 in a swollen and obliquely truncate apex which bears the functional 

 orifice. 



