THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY 

 SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



Vol. VIII, No. 3] JULY, 1913. [voT.\TiitNT.. 



Morphology and Biology of the Membracidse 

 of Kansas.* 



BY HAZEL ELISABETH BRANCH, A. B. 

 (Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requiremeuts for the degree of master of arts. > 



Plates V to XXI. 



ACKNOWLEDGMENT. 



THE writer wishes to express her thanks to all those who 

 have assisted her in the preparing of this paper, and 

 especially to : 

 Prof. S. J. Hunter, under whose guidance the work has been 

 carried on, for his continued encouragement as well as kindly 

 criticisms and suggestions. 



Mr. Mark F. Massey, for his assistance in the photographs 

 and the loan of specimens from his own collection. 



Dr. E. P. Van Duzee, for information concerning geograph- 

 ical distribution. 



Messrs. H. B. Hungerford and Francis X. Williams and Miss 

 Ruby Hosford, for their ready criticisms in the identification 

 of specimens, and suggestions in the systematic paper. 



Membracid^ : 

 1. — Morphology and Ecology of Entylia sinuata Fab. 

 2. — Taxonomy of Kansas' Forms. 



* This is one of a series of studies on Kansas Homoptera. The head of the department 

 has assigned each of the different families to a graduate student. Some of these have 

 already been published, others are to follow. 



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