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Internal male genitalia: Styles very large, thickest just beyond the 

 middle, apical third bent laterad, terminating in a foot-like form, toothed 

 on inner margin apically; connective broad and stout, with a short stout 

 median process to oedagus; oedagus V-shaped, very heavy basally, 

 terminal portion tapering, long and slender, terminating bluntly and bear- 

 ing near apex a pair of long, slender lateral processes. 



Distribution: Our commonest member of the genus, 

 found all over the state as shown by the following map : 



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Hosts: Occurs on a great variety of weeds, grasses, shrubs 

 and trees. The writer has observed the nymphs veiy commonly 

 on Carya ovata around Lawrence. 



Gypona melanota Spangb. 



Gypona melanota Spangb., Spec. Gyponje, p. 19, 1878. 



Gypona bipunctulata Woodw., Bui. 111. St. Lab. Nat. Hist., iii, p. 30, 1887. 



Gypona nigra Woodw., Bui. 111. St. Lab. Nat. Hist., iii, p. 31, 1887. 



Gypona bipunctulata O. & B., Proc. la. Acad. Sci., iv, p. 181, 1897. 



Gypona melanota Van D., Trans. Am. Ent. See, xxix, p. 112, 1903. 



Gypona melanota Van D., 20th Kept. N. Y. St. Ent., p. 513, 1905. 



Gypona bipunctulata Osb., 20th Rept. N. Y. St. Ent., p. 513, 1905. 



Gypona melanota Smith, Cat. Ins. N. J., end. 3, p. 101, 1910. 



Gypona melanota Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 613, 1917. 



Gypona melanota Gibs., Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., Ivi, p. 95, 1919. 



Gypona bipunctulata Gibs., Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., Ivi, p. 98, 1919. 



Form: This species is the most robust looking of the members of this 

 genus, being very broad and flat in proportion to its length. Length of 

 female, 9 to 11 mm.; male, 8.25 mm. Vertex, about twice as long medially 

 as next to the eye, anterior margin broadly rounding, slightly concave 

 preapically, the oblique striations very distinct. Pronotum about twice 

 as long as vertex, distinctly transversely striated. Elytra very broad, 

 slightly exceeding abdomen. 



Color: The fem.ales are all greenish, frequently bearing a pair of 

 black spots laterally on the pronotum not quite half way back, and a 



