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reddish. Face yellow, pronotum yellowish anteriorly, greenish posteriorly, 

 often with red bands continuous with red bands of clavus and of head, 

 between which are blue bands. Scutellum red or yellowish with black 

 markings. Elytra blue, claval suture with a blue stripe either side of 

 which is a broader red one, apex and posterior third of costal margin 

 pale with several small, dark, triangular spots. 



External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment as long as broad, 

 lateral margins strongly tapering posteriorly, the disc longitudinally 

 elevated, posterior margin produced angularly; pygofers long and narrow, 

 equalling or slightly exceeded by ovipositor, forming distinct keel on 

 mesal margin, bearing a few short, coarse hairs. Male, plates long and 

 narrow, often twice as long as the last ventral segment and bearing 

 coarse hairs on the lateral margins ; pygofers exceeded by the plates. 



Distribution: Taken in Cherokee county. 



Hosts: Gibson gives cowpeas and clover as hosts. De Long 

 took specimens from shrubs and weeds. Probably a general 

 feeder like the preceding. 



Genus DR^CULACEPHALA Ball. 



The following is the original description of the genus : 

 "Similar to Diedrocephala, the vertex usually longer and more 

 acutely angled. Face, as seen from side, usually straight, or 

 slightly concave to the middle of clypeus, where it is broken 

 backwards. Disc of clypeus quite gibbous. Pronotum with 

 the lateral margins parallel, narrower than or only equalling 

 the eye. Elytra long, narrowing apically, greenish, the nerv- 

 ures raised, distinct, the apical and the ante-apical cells ir- 

 regularly reticulate veined. Anterior tibiae slender, round. 



"Type of the genus D. mollipes Say." 



Two members of this genus have been collected in Kansas. 

 D. noveboracensis has not yet been reported in the state but 

 likely occurs in the northeastern portion and is therefore in- 

 cluded in the key. D. reticulata should be found in the south- 

 ern part. 



KEY TO SPECIES.* 



A. Front, as seen from side, almost straight. Sides of front with 

 dark arcs. 



B. Vertex long, acute, margins as seen from above straight, spots 

 on apex minute or none. Profile of front straight. 



C. Size small, vertex of fema'e distinctly longer than 

 broad. Lines on vertex usually faint. Last ventral seg- 

 ment of male broad. mollipes 



* Adapted from key by Dr. E. D. Ball, Proc. la. Acad. Sci., viii, p. 67, 1901. 



