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Form: Larger and broader than preceding species. Length 8 to 11 

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

 Pronotum wide with long lateral margins. Elytra long, but broader than 

 in viollipes though with similar venation. 



Color: About as in mollipes 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. 



Distribution: 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 noveboracensis (Fh.). 



Aulacizes noveboracensis Fh., Homop. N. Y. St. Cab., p. 56, 1851. 

 Tettigonia prasiha Walk., List Homop., iii, p. 768, 1851. 

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



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

 1854. 



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

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

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

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

 Drceculacephala noveboracensis Ball, Proc. la. Acad. Sci., viii, p. 71, pi. 7, fig. 6, 1901. 

 Drceculacephala noveboracensis Osb., 20th Rept. N. Y. St. Ent., 5, 511, 1905. 

 Drceculacephala noveboracensis Osb., U. S. Dept. Agr., Div. Ent., Bui. 108, p. 59, 1912 

 Drceculacephala noveboracensis Osb., Me. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 238, p. 101, 1915. 

 Drceculacephala noveboracensis Van D., Ent. News, xxvi, p. 179, 1915. 

 Drasculacephala noveboracensis Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 605, 1917. 

 Drceculacephala noveboracenxig Ols., Bui. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., xxxviii, p. 6, 1918. 

 Drceculacephala noveboracensis Weiss, Ent. News, xxix, p. 309, 1918. 

 Drceculacephala noceboracensis 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. 



Dr&culacephala reticulata (Sign.). 



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



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

 Ui'drocephala flaviceps Ril., Am. Ent., iii, p. 78, 1880. 

 Tettigonia flaviceps Johns. & Fox, Ent. Nws, iii, p. 60, l92. 



