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Colour : striped yellow and black, the yellow shading out to green on 

 the vertex and front, a median line, broad in front, narrowing out behind, 

 extending from the vertex to the tip of the abdomen, and a pair of 

 oblique lines rising under the eyes and meeting the median line on the 

 last abdominal segment, yellow ; vertex green, margin and pair of spots 

 at base black ; front green, the lateral carinse deep shining black; pustules 

 on lateral areas of pronotum and scutellum black, lateral carina; of 

 scutellum and a pair of stripes just within them black ; legs pale yellow. 



Described from two specimens from Colorado, four from Nebraska, 

 three from Kansas, and one from Iowa. One Kansas specimen was 

 received from Crevecoeur ; all the rest were collected by the author. 



Kelisia salina, n. sp — Form of pallidula nearly, but longer and 

 narrower, resembling crocea, but much smaller, pale, with the carina? of 

 front margined with black. Length, 3.5 mm. 



Vertex strongly carinate, one-third longer than wide, as long as the 

 pronotum ; front broader proportionally than in crocea, the margin 

 slightly and regularly rounding, but little narrowed above; elytra long 

 and closely appressed behind, the apex broadly rounded ; venation as in 

 crocea, the third apical nervure twice forked, the nervures studded with 

 coarse dark hairs. 



Colour : front pale smoky, the carina? light, narrowly margined with 

 black, which extends into the lateral fovea? of the vertex ; basal part of 

 vertex creamy ; pronotum pale, with more or less of smoky clouding on 

 the disc ; scutellum creamy, often trilineate with pale. Legs and all 

 below, except ovipositor and a few spots along margin, pale in the female, 

 abdomen all dark in male. 



Described from twenty-four specimens from various places in 

 Colorado. 



Kelisia parvula, n. sp. — Size of pallidula nearly, but with broader 

 elytra, a shorter species than salina, with an unmarked front ; front and 

 above entirely pale. Length 3.25 mm. 



Vertex weakly carinate, broad, but little longer than wide, rounding 

 to front ; front as in salina; elytra longer than abdomen, broad at apex ; 

 venation distinct, nervures strong and slightly setigerous, the third apical 

 veinlet but once forked near the apex. 



Colour : pale straw or whitish; vertex and scutellum tinged with 

 orange, the abdomen in male smoky brown and black. 



