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Hosts: Osborn reports this species as occurring in bogs and 

 low ground ; De Long records it from grasses and weeds. 



Oncometopia lateralis var. limhata (Say). 



Tettigonia limhata Say, Jl. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila., iv, p. 340, 1825. 

 Tetligonia costalis Sign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser. 3, iii, p. 821, 1855. 

 Tettigonia septenlrionalis Walk., List Homop., Suppl., p. 193, 1858. 

 Oncometopia limhata Van D., P.syche, v, p. 389, 1890. 



Oncometopia lateralis var. limhata Ball, Proc. la. Acad. Sci., viii, p. 45, 1901. 

 Oncometopia lateralis var. limhata Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 593, 1917. 



Form: Somewhat smaller and narrower than preceding form, elytra 

 longer. 



Color: Black, vertex and face somewhat irrorate with yellow. Two 

 small orange spots about one-third distance from anterior margin and in 

 line with ocelli. Lateral yellow line broad and distinct. 



Distribution: Rawlins county has furnished us our only 



specimen of this variety. 



Hosts: Unknown. 



Genus Cicadella Latr. 



In this genus the ledges over the antennal sockets are not 

 prominent. The vertex is bluntly conical, and slightly sloping, 

 with the lateral margins not in a distinct line with the curve 

 of the eye. Pronotum rather long, broadest at lateral angles. 

 The elytra cover the terga of the abdomen and are not reticu- 

 lately veined at the apex. 



Two members of this genus and two varieties have been col- 

 lected in Kansas, but two other species likely occur and are 

 therefore included in the key. 



