LAWSON: KANSAS CICADELLID^. 99 



F<y)-m: Larger and broader than preceding species. Length 8 to 11 

 mm. Vertex distinctly shorter than broad, disc concave anteriorly. 

 Pronotum wide with long lateral m.argins. Elytra long, but broader than 

 in mollipes though with similar venation. 



Color: About as in jnoUipes except that the lines on the vertex are 

 broad and distinct. 



External genitalia : Female, last ventral segment about three-fourths 

 as long as wide, lateral margins strongly tapering posteriorly, posterior 

 margin strongly and angularly produced medially; pygofers very long 

 and narrow, equalling or slightly exceeded by ovipositor, and bearing a 

 very few coarse, stout hairs along either side of the ovipositor. Male, 

 last ventral segment characteristic, distinctly longer than wide, cylindri- 

 cal; valve semicircular, strongly and angularly produced medially; plates 

 long and slender, slightly divergent, nearly equalling pygofers, tips 

 curved upward and inward, and bearing a few hairs on lateral margins. 



DistHhution: Sedgwick county is the only place in the state 

 from which specimens of this species have yet been taken. 



Hosts: Doctor Osborn reports this species as occurring in 

 the coarse grasses of lowlands and in timothy. 



Drseculacephala novehoracensis (Fh.). 



Aiilacizes noveboracen.ns Fh., Homop. X. Y. St. Cab., p. 56, J851. 

 Tettigtinia prasina Walk., List Homop., iii, p. 768, 1851. 

 Tettingonia noveboracensis Walk., List Homop., iv, p. 1158, 1852. 



Diedrocephala novehoracensis Sign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser. 3. ii. p. 19, pi. 2, fig. 5, 

 1854. 



Diedrocephala novehoracensis Osb., U. S. Dept. Agr.. Div. Ent.. Bui. 22, p. 27, 1890. 

 Diedrocephala novehoracensis Osb., Proc. la. Acad. Sci., i, pt. 2, p. 125, 1892. 

 Diedrocephala novehoracensis G. & B., Hemip. Colo., p. 82, 1895. 

 Diedrocephala novehoracensis O. & B., Proc. la. Acad. Sci., p. 177, 1897. 

 Draculacephala novehoracensis Ball, Proc. la. Acad. Sci., viii, p. 71, pi. 7, fig. 6, 1901. 

 Draculacephala novehoracensis Osb., 20th Rept. N. Y. St. Ent., 5, 511, 1905. 

 Droeculacephala novehoracensis Osb., U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Bui. 108, p. 59, 1912. 

 Drmculacephala novehoracensis Osb., Me. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 238, p. 101, 1915. 

 Dr(eculacephala novehoracensis Van D., Ent. News, xxvi, p. 179, 1915. 

 Drcvcvlacephala novehoracensis Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 605, 1917. 

 Draculacephala novehoracensis Ols., Bui. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxviii, p. 6, 1918. 

 Dr(eculacephala novehoracensis Weiss, Ent. News, xxix, p. 309, 1918. 

 DrcBcnlacephala novehoracensis Ols., Bui. Brooklyn Ent. Soc, xiii, p. 121, 1918. 



This species has not yet been reported from Kansas, but should be 

 found in the eastern and northern portion. It is a rather large, stout 

 species, 8 mm. long, with a shorter vertex than the preceding species. 

 The vertex, when seen from above has slightly rounding margins, and 

 the profile of the face is slightly rounding. It occurs, according to Osborn, 

 on the coarse grasses of low ground. 



DrascvXacephala reticulata (Sign.). 



(PI. 9, figs. 8-9.) 

 Te.tiigonia reticulata Sign., Ann. Soc. Ent. Fr., ser. 3, p. 22, pi. 2, fig. 10, 1854. 

 Diedrocephala flaviceps Ril., Am. Ent., iii, p. 78, 1880. 

 Tettigonia flaviceps Johns. & Fox, Ent. Nrws, iii, p. 60, ]^91. 



