186 THE UNIVERSITY SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



Genus Alicia Ball. 



Doctor Ball characterizes this genus as follows : 

 "Vertex short, sloping, rounding to front, without a def- 

 initely angled margin except near apex, transverse depression 

 faint or curved posteriorly in the middle and ending at the 

 ocelli ; front long, wedge-shaped, margins not constricted be- 

 tween antennal sockets. Elytra subhyaline, the nervures dis- 

 tinct, dark, tAvo cross nervures between the sectors and usually 

 a number of supernumerary vein lets along costa and claval 

 sutures." 



None of the members of this genus have yet been reported 

 from Kansas, but the following species should be found : 



Aligia modesta (O. & B.). 



Eutettix modesta O. & B., Dav. Acad. Sci., vii, p. 98, 1898. 



Eulettix (AlUjia) modenta Ball, Proc. Dav. Acad. Sci., xii, p. 58, pi. 3, fig. 4, 1907. 



Eutettix modenta Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 628, 1917. 



Form: A moderately stout species. Length, 4.5 to 5.5 mm. Vertex 

 barely longer on the middle than next the eye, two and one-half times as 

 wide as long, disc sloping, rounding to the front, distinct transverse im- 

 pression just back of the apex. Pronotum over twice as broad as long, 

 lateral margins very short, humeral margins long, posterior margin very 

 slightly concave. Elytra moderately long, two cross nervures between the 

 sectors. 



Color: Pale fulvous or tawny. Vertex whitish with a pair of apical 

 spots, a pair of short lines in each basal angle and often the transverse 

 depression, tawny. Pronotum faintly irrorate with tawny. Elytra red- 

 dish-fulvous, subhyaline, with whitish spots and more or less definite 

 bands across the base and before the tip of the clavus. Face pale. 



External genitalia : Female, last ventral segment over twice as long 

 as the preceding, lateral angles broadly rounded, posterior margin trun- 

 cate except for a broad but short rounding lobe on the median third; 

 pygofers stout, widest at the middle, slightly exceeded by the ovipositor, 

 sparsely spined apically. Male, valve broad and triangular, rounded 

 apically; plates large, convex, nearly four times the length of the valve, 

 apices acute, margins spiny. 



Distribution: This species has not yet been reported from 

 Kansas, but very likely occurs in the eastern part of the state. 

 Hostf^: Doctor Ball records this as an oak-feeding species. 



Genus Mesamia Ball. 



Doctor Ball describes this genus as follows : 

 "Vertex with the disc depressed, anterior margin usually 

 elevated and acutely angled with the front, margin often 



