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and show better diagnostic characters. In the males the ver- 

 tex is uniformly shorter with the dark markings more pro- 

 nounced. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES : 



Line of the face when viewed from the side rectilinear or nearly 



so i 



Line of the face strongly arcuated, the front tumidly convex 12 



1, Markings of vertex consisting of pale brown mottlings, arranged 



more or less distinctly in longitudinal series; color dull testa- 

 ceous yellow, the broad anterior margin of pronotum and elytral 

 venation whitish ; vertex acute, nearly as long as broad ; last 

 ventral segment of female distinctly bisinuate ; length 8-9 mm. ; 



Florida floridana Ball. 



Vertex not mottled ; markings in lines and points more or less dis- 

 tinct 2 



2, Five black points on the vertex (including the ocelli) and two on 



the base of the scutellum 3 



Vertex and scutellum without distinct black points or the ocelli only 

 marked with black 4 



3, Color pale testaceous tinged with brownish, the costa only yellowish ; 



anterior margin of pronotum with vermiculate marks including 

 a distinct black spot behind the eye ; vertex acute, as long as 

 broad ; last ventral segment of female produced, the lateral 

 angles right-angled ; length 6 mm. ; Southern states, 



7-guttata Walk. 



Color typical of the genus, yellow with the disk of the pronotum and 

 the elytra green ; anterior black point on the vertex often obso- 

 lete in the male, the lines obscure ; vermiculate marks on the 

 anterior margin of the pronotum faint or wanting, not form- 

 ing a point behind the eye ; vertex acute, not as long on the 

 middle line as wide at base including the eyes ; last ventral seg- 

 ment of the female scarcely bisinuate, the lateral angles some- 

 times moderately produced; length 6 mm.; Georgia, .balli n. sp. 



4, Vertex acute, much less than right-angled in the female ; pronotum 



with a group of black punctures before the humeri 5 



Vertex obtuse, scarcely more than right-angled before ; pronotum 

 without a group of black punctures before the humeri 9 



5, Vertex greatly produced, at least as long as broad across the eyes ; 



lines on vertex indistinct ; green and yellow of the upper sur- 

 face clear, elytral nervures bluish ; beneath testaceous ; female 

 without fuscous vitta on the sides, its last ventral segment trun- 

 cated and but little produced; length 9 mm.; Florida. acit/a Walk. 

 Vertex not as long as wide across the eyes 6 



