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Distribution: While undoubtedly occurring throughout the 

 eastern portion of the state, yet specimens have been recorded 

 only from Douglas and Pottawatomie counties. 



Hosts: This species is very common in Douglas county on 

 wild gooseberry in the spring. In winter it is found hiber- 

 nating in leaves. 



Erythroneura rubroscuta (Gill.) . 



Typhlocyba rubroscuta Gill., Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., xx, p. 755, 1898. 

 Erythroneura rubroscuta Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 712, 19,17. 



Form: Length, 3.25 mm. .Vertex about twice as long on middle as 

 next the eye, one-half wider than long, rather acutely pointed. Pronotum 

 about one-half longer than vertex, scarcely wider than head, less than 

 twice as wide as long, lateral margins longer than the humeral margins, 

 posterior margin clearly emarginate. Elytra long and narrow. 



Color: Vertex pale yellow, tip and a basal spot near each eye usually 

 reddish. Pronotum varying from yellow, tinged with red, to bright red 

 with a large yellow median spot on anterior margin. Scutellum entirely 

 red or with a median rectangular paler portion. Elytra pale yellow with 

 broad red band just before tip of clavus which does not reach the costal 

 margin, and with base of costal margin and cross nervures reddish. Face 

 yellow, with reddish tinge. 



External genitalia: Female, last ventral segment half longer than pre- 

 ceding, narrowed posteriorly, posterior margin with a large median lobe; 

 pygofers narrow, slightly exceeded by the black-tipped ovipositor, with 

 a few apical spines. Male, valve nearly as broad and fully as long as 

 last ventral segment, posterior margin very slightly emarginate; plates 

 over twice as long as the valve, lateral margins slightly concave medially, 

 with a few bristles in the concavity, apices subacute, exceeding the short 

 pygofers. 



Distribution: This species has been taken only in Douglas 

 and Pottawatomie counties. 



Hosts: The writer swept one specimen from Symphoricarpos 

 orbiculatus. Crevecoeur took many specimens hibernating in 



leaves. 



Erythroneura illinoiensis (Gill.). 



(PI. 16, figs. 13-14.) 



Typhlocyba illinoiensis Gill., Proc. U. S. Natl. Mus., xx, p. 758, 1898. 

 Typhlocyba illinoiensw Osb., 20th Kept. N. Y. St. Ent., p. 545, 1905. 

 Typhlocyba illinoiensis DeL., Tenn. St. Bd. Ent., Bui. 17, p. 109, 1916. 

 Erythroneura illinoiensis Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 714, 1917. 

 Erythroneura illinoiensis Lathr., S. C. Agr. Exp. Sta., Bui. 199, p. 118, 1919. 



Form: Long and slender, tapering at both ends. Length, 3 mm. Ver- 

 tex nearly twice as long on middle as next the eye, about one-half wider 

 than long. Pronotum long, scarcely twice as wide as long, anterior 

 margin broadly convex, lateral margins long and widening posteriorly, 



