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paler form than typical insana, and with the detinitc spotting 

 would not be easily recognized as belonging to that species. 



Eutettix (Mesamia) coloradensis \ ar. visalia, n. var. 



Form of coloradensis Pale fulvous, with light flecks on elytra. 



Colour and general appearance of johnsoni, except for the 

 black points on vertex. Vertex and face pale fuKous, with the 

 line wanting or only slightly indicated in tawny. Pronotum and 

 scutcllum ]>ale fuKous without definite markings. Klytra with 

 the claval areas pale fuKous more or less flecked with ol)long 

 milk\- spots. Corium fulvous sub-hyaline, the nervures tawny 

 and usually' a tawny spot between the two cross nerx'ures and faint 

 dusky spots in the centres of the apical cells. 



Described from two females and two males from Visalia, 

 California, collected 1)\- the writer on Artemisia dracunculoides. 

 If iliis had not been the food plant to which coloradensis is strictly 

 confinetl this variet\- would scarcely ha\e been referred to this 

 species, as the colour is so strikingly difterent. The finding of 

 this colour \ariety indicates a closer relationship between the 

 niorodorsum and vitellina groups than was even suspected when 

 they were placed in the same sul^genus. 



Phlepsius loculatus, n. sp. 



Resembling a diminutixe costomaciilatus in appearance, but 

 much smaller. White, with two stripes and coarse cKtral reticula- 

 tions dark. Length 3-3.5 mm. 



Head with the eyes much wider than pronoium; \ertex 

 narrow, slightly longer than its basal width, as long as pronotum, 

 slightly obtusely angled with the apex bluntly rounding, disc 

 nearly flat, anterior margin forming an acute angle with the front; 

 front long, narrow, wedge-shaped. Elytra long, narrow, venation 

 as in costomacidatus, the apical cells extremely long. 



Colour dark brown or black and white, giving an ashy gray 

 appearance. Vertex milky white or sometimes suffused with yel- 

 low, two pair of brown dots on the extreme margin against the 

 apex, a pair of slightly oblique, elongate, egg-shaped dark spots 

 extending from just behind the anterior pair of spots to posterior 

 margin, each dark spot containing two light spots in the shape of 

 an oblique crescent above a dash. Sometimes the dark spots 



