LAWSON: KANSAS CICADELLID^. 



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DistHhution: Reports and specimens at hand seem to show 

 this species as occurring only in eastern Kansas. It undoubt- 

 edly occurs further west in the state than is shown by the 

 following map : 



Hosts: Seemingly we have here a very general feeder. It 

 has been taken from numerous weeds, shrubs and trees. The 

 writer this season found the nymphs of the last instar in large 

 numbers on Ambrosia trifida during the last week in July and 

 the first week in August. By the last week in August the 

 nymphs had all molted into adults. 



Graphocephala versuta (Say). 



Tettigonia versuta Say, Jl. Acad. Nat. Sci. Phila.. vi, p. 311, 1831; Compl. Writ., ii, 

 p. 386. 



TelHgonia versuta Sign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser.S, p. 348, pi. 11, fig. 10, 1854. 

 Diedrocephala vemuta Woodw., Bui. 111. St. Lab. Nat. Hist., iii, p. 22, 1887. 

 Diedrocephala versuta Osb., U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Bui. 22, p. 27, 1890. 

 Tettigonia redacta Fowl., Biol. Centr. Am., Homop., ii, p. 276, pi. 18, fig. 21, 1900. 

 Diedrocephala versuta Ball, Proc. la. Acad. Sci., viii, p. 64, pi. 6, fig. 3, 1901. 

 Diedrocephala versuta DeL., Tenn. St. Bd. Ent., Bui. 17, p. 25, 1916. 

 Diedrocephala versuta Gibs., Can. Ent., xlviii, p. 177, 1916. 

 Graphocephala versuta Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 602, 1917. 

 Graphocephala versuta Ols., Bui. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxviii, p. 5, 1918. 

 Graphocephala versuta Lathr., S. C. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 199, p. 33, 1919. 



Form: Like coccinea but smaller. Length, 5 to 6 mm. Vertex broader 

 than long, a little shorter than pronotum, apex blunt, lateral margins 

 distinctly rounding. Pronotum narrowed anteriorly, humeral margins 

 slightly longer than lateral margins. Elytra not quite as long as in 

 coccinea. 



Color: Vertex with black marginal lines and with pair of median 

 parallel lines connecting anteriorly with broken lines which run back 

 parallel with the margin, between the margin and the ocelli. Space be- 

 tween parallel lines and around the margin whitish or yellowish, the rest 



