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extending to it. At the back of the dorsal crest is a narrow transverse 

 line of a pale color, or there may be a reticulation. 

 Length, 6 to 5 mm. Described from ten specimens. 

 Habitat: Maine; Kansas City, Mo.; New York; Douglas county, 

 Kansas. 



2. — Publilia modeMa Uhler. Figs. 32, 33. 



A comparatively pale species, with prothorax entirely covering the 

 abdomen and tips of tegmina, leaving only the costal region exposed. The 

 dorsal sinus is very slight, sometimes almost entirely absent. The meto- 

 pidium is not elevated into a procephalon of any degree, but is trans- 

 versely rounded, the dorsal crest not apparent. Dorsum only slightly 

 arcuated. Body dark, with femora black and shiny; frequently body 

 light and legs pale. Pronotum with lateral carinas indistinct, and very 

 slight, if any, reticulation; closely punctate. 



Color variable. There are some individuals which are pale green, virith 

 only the front of head and metopidium mottled with dark, or the form 

 may be brownish, with face still darker. The sides of the prothorax with 

 two pale spots, one large one near the front, and an oblique line near the 

 posterior process, concurrent across the dorsum. Frequently these pale 

 spots are a light yellow. There is a white or grey variation, with head 

 and front of metopidium dark grey, the posterior process and an oblique 

 band on the prothorax also grey. A few forms are almost pure white, 

 being only inconspicuously mottled, and this on the dorsal carina. In 

 these vary pale specimens the costal region of the tegmina is the same 

 shade as the ground color of the pronotum, and is coriaceous. 



The nymphs have sharp, shiny dorsal tubercles on the abdomen. The 

 enlargements of the head and prothorax are hirsute. P. bicinctura Godg., 

 as determined in P. H. S. collection, appears to agree with the grey 

 variation of P. modesta. 



Length, 4.5 to 5.1 mm. Described from seventeen specimens. 



Habitat: Albuquerque, N. M.; Colorado Springs, Colo.; Gove and 

 Rawlins counties, Kansas. 



■i. — Tribe Smiliini Coding. 



In this tribe we find four genera — Smiliia Germ., Ophiderma Fairnm., 

 Antianthe Powler, and Cyrtolobns Coding. Of these, only Cyrfolobus is 

 reported from Kansas. The last three genera are separated from the 

 first, Smiliia, by the presence of a transverse nervule between the two 

 inner longitudinal veins, which is absent in Smilia. Cyrtolobus and 

 Antianthe are separated from Ophiderma by the strongly compressed 

 pronotum, as Ophiderma is not at all compressed and the dorsum is 

 rounded transversely. Again, Cyrtolobus is differentiated from Antianthe 

 by the absence of the strongly produced suprahumerals so evident in 

 Antianthe. In Cyrtolobus there are small suprahumerals and the dorsum 

 is highest at about the middle. 



Students in this subject have seen fit to divide the genus Cyrtolobus 

 into the subgenera Xantholobus V. D., Evashmeadea Godg., Atymna Stal, 

 and Cyrtolobus Godg. Xantholobus is separated from the others by its 

 posteriorly inflated pronotum. Atymna and Cyrtolobus differ from 



