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than preceding segment, posterior margin truncate, with a small median 

 excision; pygcfers broad and long, exceeding ovipositor, and bearing, 

 chiefly on distal half, quite a few large coarse hairs. Male, last ventral 

 segment long, semicircular, covering the valve; plates very broad and 

 obliquely truncate apically with the outer angles more prominent than 

 the rounding inner angles; pygofers about as long as the plates, narrow, 

 and covered with numerous very large hairs. 



Distribution: Taken in Douglas, Pottawatomie, Sumner 

 and Montgomery counties. 



Hosts: Probably a grass-feeding species. 



Gypona puncticollis Spangb. 



Oypona puncticciUi.i Spangb., Spec. Gyponse, p. 54, 1878. 

 Gypona pvncticollis DeL., Tenn. St. Bd. Ent., Bui. 17, p. 30, 1916. 

 Gypona puncticollis Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 615, 1917. 

 Gypona puncticollis Gibs.. Proc. U. S. Xiitl. Mus., Ivi, p. 98, 1919. 



Form: As in preceding species. Length, 8 to 9 mm. 



Color: Reddish brown with vertex, pronotum and scutellum lighter 

 than the elytra, the scutellum the lightest. Head, pronotum and basal 

 and costal portion of elytra often irrorate with red. Spot behind each 

 ocellus light brown. Pronotum with four black spots near the margin. 

 Elytra with black spot on humerus, on some of the cross veins and also in 

 some cells. 



External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment broad and long, 

 posterior margin sinuate, lobe on median third with a median notch; 

 pygofers broad and long, exceeding ovipositor and with coarse hairs on 

 apical half. Male, genitalia as in preceding species except that last 

 ventral segment is more produced medially and the plates are longer and 

 further apart. 



Distribution: Taken only in Pottawatomie and Riley coun- 

 ties. 



Hosts: De Long gives Elym.us virginicus as one of the grass 

 hosts of this species. 



Gypona cinerea Uhl. 



Gypona cinerea Uhl., Bui. U. S. Geol. Geog. Surv., iii, p. 460, 1877. 

 Gypona cinerea Woodw., Bui. 111. St. Lab. Nat. Hist., iii, p. 32, 1887. 

 Gypona cinerea Will., Kan. Univ. Sci. Bui., viii, p. 223, 1913. 

 Gypona cinerea Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 615, 1917. 

 Gypona cinerea Gibs., Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., Ivi, p. 100, 1919. 



Form: This species varies very greatly in size. Length of females 6 

 to 11 mm., males 5 to 9 mm. Vertex produced more than in other mem- 

 bers of the genus, atout three times as long medially as next the eyes 

 and almost as long as the pronotum. Pronotum twice as broad as long. 

 There are long- and short-winged forms in both sexes. In the long- 

 \vinged females the elytra just exceed the abdomen; in the short-winged 

 forms they are exceeded by the abdomen. The elytra of the long-winged 



