THE KANSAS UNIVERSITY 

 SCIENCE BULLETIN. 



VOL. XII, No. 2.] MARCH 15, 1920. [ 



The Cicadidae of Kansas. 



BY P. B. LAWSON. 



For several years the writer has been interested in the 

 Homopterous fauna of Kansas. He has in recent years written 

 systematic papers on the Coccidte and Cicadellidse found in the 

 state, and after working on the latter family, found himself 

 much interested in the Homoptera-Auchenorhynchi as a group. 



In looking over the material belonging to this group in the 

 Snow collections, he found that a very representative collec- 

 tion of cicadas was on hand and at once became interested in 

 studying them. Most of this material had been gathered and 

 arranged by Mr. R. H. Beamer, formerly assistant curator of 

 the Snow collections. He himself had intended to publish on the 

 group, but just as he was about ready to undertake the work, 

 he gave up active work in entomology, and so his material fell 

 into the writer's hands. The writer wishes therefore to ac- 

 knowledge his indebtedness to him and also to Mr. Wm. T. 

 Davis, who not only identified all the material sent him by Mr. 

 Beamer' and myself, but also sent me for study other specimens 

 necessary for the prosecution of the work. 



In the Journal of the New York Entomological Society, Vol. 

 xxvi, Nos. 3 and 4, 1918, Mr. Davis published a paper on the 

 cicadas of Mississippi. In this paper he records eighteen 

 species from that state and remarks on this relatively large 

 number of species within a single state. Records show that 

 twenty-one species have been taken in Kansas, and specimens 

 of these are now in the Snow collection. A pair of Tibicen 

 resonans was very kindly given us by Mr. Davis for the collec- 



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