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angles, the anterior portions showing through the pronotum. Elytra 

 whitish hyaline, often smoky, especially on basal two-thirds, and with a 

 light spot on the claval suture. Nervures light. Face unmarked, or with 

 sutures of front black. 



External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment short, about as long 

 as the preceding, posterior margin truncated; pygofers nearly or fully 

 equalling the black ovipositor, the apices with a few white spines. Male, 

 valve long, triangular, apex obtusely rounded, neai'ly covering the narrow 

 plates. 



Distribution: Specimens are at hand from Douglas, Potta- 

 watomie, and Riley counties. It probably occurs throughout 

 the eastern part of the state. 



Hosts: This species is reported from grasses and weeds. 

 Our specimens were taken at lights. 



Cicadula lepida Van D. 



Cicadula lepida Van D., Can. Ent., xxvi. p. 139, 1894. 



Cicadvla lepida Osb., 20th Rept. N. Y. St. Ent., p. 540, 190.i. 



Cicadula lepida DeL., Tenn. St. Bd. Ent., Bui. 17, p. 94, 1916. 



Cicadula lepida Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 694, 1917. 



Cicadula lepida Fent., Ohio JI. Sci., xviii, p. 185, 1918. 



Cicadula lepida Lathr., S. C. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 199, p. 106, 1919. 



Having no specimens of this species at hand, we copy the following de- 

 scription from DeLong: 



"Resembling variata, but distinguished from it by the vertex more 

 produced on the middle, and with a black spot next each eye. Length, 

 3.5 to 4 mm. 



"Vertex bluntly angulate, slightly more than half longer on the middle 

 than next the eye, more angulately produced than variata 



"Cola)': Yellow, often tinged with green; vertex with two spots near 

 the base, two large spots on apex, a vertical mark either side, between 

 ocellus and eye, and often short, frontal arcs, black. Elytra whitish, 

 often tinged with yellow, smoky at apex, nervures pale. 



"Genitalia: Female, last ventral segment rather short, slightly emargi- 

 nate at middle; pygofers as long as black ovipositor, clothed with white 

 spines. Male, valve large and rounded, plates short, convexly rounding to 

 rather blunt apices, outer margins with long white spines." 



Dist7^ibution: Specimens of this species have been taken in 

 Douglas and Pottawatomie counties. 



Hosts: DeLong reports sweeping specimens from small 

 grass in low, swampy ground. 



Cicadula sexnotata (Fall.). 



(PI. 15, figs. 5-6.) 

 Cicada sexnotata Fall., Acta Holm, xxvii, p. 34, 1806. 

 Jassus sexnotata Burm., Genera Ins., pi. 14, 1838. 

 Cicadula sexnotata Zett., Ins. Lapp., column 297, 1840. 

 Thamnotettix sexnotata Stal, Stet. Ent. Zeit., xix, p. 194, 1858. 

 Macrosteles sexnotata Fieb., Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien., xvi, p. 504, 1866. 



