Vol. XXVJi] ENTOMOLOGICAL NEWS. 2O7 



Color: vertex light creamy, a black apical spot, three pairs of brown 

 dots along median suture, the posterior pair sometimes connected. 

 Pronotum creamy, scutellum creamy with two black marginal dots. 

 Elytra creamy with brown nervures, tergum and venter pale. 



Described from two females and two males from Beaumont, 

 Chico and Oroville, California, collected by the writer. The 

 lighter, larger male will readily separate this species from 

 ramona, while the venation will easily separate it from rcticn- 

 lata and Candida. 



Neocoelidia pentagona n. sp. 



Resembling obscura but slenderer, with a longer head and indistinct 

 nervures. Length 6-7 mm. 



Vertex almost perfectly pentagonal, the anterior margin carinate, 

 disc almost flat, vertex as long as pronotum, longer than its basal 

 width, pronotum short, deeply, angularly emarginate posteriorly. Ely- 

 tra long, narrow, venation indistinct, a rather small outer anteapical 

 cell present. Male plates nearly three times as long as their basal 

 width, gradually narrowing and slightly surpassing the pygofers. 

 Pygofers with the dorsal margins semi-circular, slightly produced as 

 a tooth at the apex. 



Color: bright straw or creamy, a black dot on apex of vertex, faint 

 but rather broad submarginal and median orange stripes on vertex, 

 the median one sometimes continuing on to pronotum and scutellum. 

 Elytra pale, slightly greenish subhyaline, nervures concolorous. 



Described from two females and two males from Medford, 

 Oregon, collected by the writer. The long carinate vertex and 

 lack of ornamentation are quite distinctive characters in this 

 group. 



Neocoelidia triunata n. sp. 



Resembling pentagona but smaller and with a shorter vertex. Pale 

 straw with blood red markings. Length 5.5-6 mm. 



Vertex flat carinate, long, anterior margin slightly wider than long. 

 Male plates appressed, together tubular, tapering, very long, resembling 

 a slender Indian club, exceeding the pygofers. 



Color: pale straw, vertex with a black dot at apex, a semi-circle 

 just back of this, a triangular spot against the anterior corner of each 

 eye and a median dot on posterior margin, blood red. Pronotum with 

 three stripes, the median one extending across scutellum, the lateral 

 ones arising behind the eyes and slightly widening to the outer an.ulrs 

 of scutellum. Elytra pale subhyaline straw, with a marginal red 

 mark on each side, the tergum showing through. Nervures indistinct. 



