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as shown by the following distribution giyen by Van Duzee: On- 

 tario, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Ohio, 

 Illinois, Iowa, Dakota, Kansas, Missouri, Colorado, New Mexico, 

 Arizona, California, and Montana. 



In Kansas it has been taken in the following counties : Chautau- 

 qua, Douglas, Hodgeman, Cowley, Ottawa, Riley, Dickinson, Linn, 

 Ellis, Bourbon, Montgomery, and Wabaunsee. 



Hosts. Funkhouser records this species from sweet and red 

 clover, timothy and apple. Miss Branch mentions gama grass. 

 Coding reports it from plum, oats, oak and alfalfa. The writer 

 has taken it very commonly on apple. 



Stictocephala lutea (Walker). 



Thelia lutea Walker, List Homop., ii, p. 559, 1851. 



Thelia inermis Walker, List Homop., iv, p. 1142, 1851. 



Gargara pectoralis Emmons, Nat. Hist. N. Y. Ins., p. 157, p. 1, 13, fig. 12, 1854. 



Stictocephala lutea Stal, Of. Vet. Akad. Forh., xxvi, p. 247, 1869. 



Funkhouser gives the following technical description: 



Small species; grass-green above, usually marked with black below; meto- 

 pidium sloping, dorsal crest not high, not regularly arcuate; tegmina smoky 

 hyaline. 



Head perpendicular, subtriangiilar, broader than long, finely punctate, 

 sparingly pubescent, weakly sculptured; eyes prominent, brown usually banded 

 with- reddish, extending outward as far as lateral angles; ocelli distinct, yel- 

 lowish margined with brown, much nearer to each other than to the eyes; 

 inferior margins of vertex weakly sinuate, their ventral raesal angles ending in 

 hooks; clypeus robust, extending only slightly beyond inferior margins of 

 vertex. 



Pronotum closely and deeply punctate; metopidium convex, median carina 

 faint, smooth yellowish area on each side near base of head, sides of meto- 

 pidium meeting at or a little before middle of body; dorsal crest not high, 

 sloping gradually from junction of carinate edges of metopidium to posterior 

 process; semicircular lateral impression weak; posterior process slender, gradu- 

 ally acute, extending as far as tip of abdomen and to a point on tegmina half- 

 way between internal angles and apices. 



Tegmina hyaline, smoky at apices. Under parts of thorax distinctly black. 

 Legs generally marked with black. Notch of last ventral segment of female 

 very small or obsolete. 



Length, 6.5 mm.; width, 2 mm. 



Internal male genitalia. Styles stout, especially posterior portion, 

 bent in near middle of connective, then flaring widely till just before 

 the incurved tips, which are transversely truncate with the inner 

 angle prominent and distinctly serrate on both its margins, the 

 apical fourth of the styles bearing on each margin a row of long 

 hairs; connective large, elongate, widest just caudad of the middle; 

 cedagus, viewed laterally, with medium-sized and humped dorsal 



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