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tip. Legs pale; body dark. Sometimes the color markings do not take 

 definite shape, but appear in mottled splotches. Again, the procephalon 

 may be light in color, continuing on to the sides of the prothorax and 

 forming a cephalocaudal band meeting the light caudal third, thus leav- 

 ing only the tip of the cephalic elevation and the sides of the dorsal ele- 

 vation dark. 



Length: Males, 3.3 to 5.1 mm.; females, 5.2 to 6.1 mm. Described 

 from sixty- three specimens. 



Habitat: Manchester, Vt.; Maine; Kansas City, Mo.; Brownsville, 

 and Galveston, Tex.; Douglas, Sedgwick, Reno and Neosho counties, 

 Kansas; New York. 

 Synonyms : 



1798 — Membracis sinuata Fabr. Ent. Syst. Suppl. 



1798 — Memhrads emarginata. 



1803 — Membracis emarginata Fabr. Syst. Phyng. 



1851 — Entylia concisa Walk. List. Horn. B. M. 



1851 — Entylia decisa Walk. List. Horn. B. M. 



1851 — Entylia accisa Walk. List. Hom. B. M. 



1851 — Entilia torva var. Fitch. Cat. Horn. N. Y. 



1851— Entilia torva Walk. List. Hom. B. M. 



1876 — Entilia carinata Glover. Rep. U. S. Dept. Agril. No. 29. 



At the close of the Synonimical Catalogue occurs the following 

 habitat: New York, Missouri, New Hampshire, Virginia, District of Co- 

 lumbia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Pennyslvania, Michigan, Iowa, 

 Maryland, Florida, Illinois. 



3. — Genus Publilia Stal. 

 This genus has been formed by Stal for the reception of those species 

 formally classed as Entylia, where the elevations are not high enough to 

 put the form strictly into genus Entylia, but in which the dorsum is sim- 

 ilarly sinuated. Kansas contributes two species to the genus. 



A. Dorsum straight or feebly bowed, scarcely if at all sinuated, form slender, pro- 

 thorax punctate, not wrinkled 2 — modesta Uhler 



AA. Dorsum elevated, obviously sinuated. 



B. Sides of the prothorax with longitudinal wrinkles which form a network along 

 the dorsum l^concava fay 



1. — Publilia concava Say. Figs. 26, 27, 65. 



A small, dark form with a very roughly punctated and coarsely re- 

 ticulated pronotum, which almost covers the tegmina laterally. The 

 metopidium is slightly elevated, being compressed and in cephalic aspect 

 appears as a heavy carina or minute procephalon above the cephalic face 

 of the metopidium. The sinus on the dorsum is obvious, although not as 

 marked as in Entylia sinuata; the base is flat or angulated, not a regular 

 curve. The dorsal crest is not abrupt caudad, but curves gently to the 

 posterior process. Along the sides of the prothorax are distinct carinas, 

 which become forked anteriorly and dorsally, forming a network of veins. 



This species is dark, mottled slightly with pale, and there is a light 

 vitta on the side below the sinus, and a large spot on the lateral edge 

 behind the middle, extending upward toward the dorsal crest, but not 



