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margin parallel, lateral angles broadly rounding. Elytra broad and 

 short, venation distinct, the outer fork of first sector usually fo. 

 to form a closed anteapical cell. 



Color Pale greenish white, vertex and front pale dirty straw color 

 a black spot at apex, and sometimes a pair of quadrangular brown 

 spots on disc. Two black points on scutellum, sometimes wanting, 

 elytra powdered or milky white, sometimes greenish white, the ner- 

 vures pale brown. Sometimes the apical cells are clouded with brown 

 and the nervures between them are then broadly light. 



Genitalia Female segment long and narrow curved around the 

 ovipositor, truncate posteriorly, the median half slightly angularly pro- 

 duced; male, valve broad at base, a little longer than its basal width 

 apex acute, two round black spots on the disc. 



Described from eight examples from the southern parts of 

 Utah and Colorado. 



Neocoelidia reticulata n. sp. 



Resembling Candida in form, smaller. Green with reticulate veined 

 elytra. Length scarcely 4mm. 



Vertex broad, slightly longer than wide, bluntly conical the disc 

 inclined to be flat but scarcely separated from front. Elytra moder- 

 ately long, slightly exceeding the abdomen, venation coarsely and 

 irregularly reticulate. Female segment moderately long, the posterior 

 margin broadly evenly rounding. 



Color Vertex and front pale green a black spot on apex, pronotum 

 pale green, an oblique milky dash on either side the anterior disc. 

 Scutellum pale green the median line milky, expanding just before the 

 apex into a triangular spot, a pair of black points on the lateral 

 margin. Elytra milky or greenish white, pruinose, the reticulate vena- 

 tion dirty greenish brown. 



Described from three females from Tia Juana, California, 

 collected by the author. Readily separated from all other 

 species by the reticulate venation. 



Neocoelidia compta n. sp. 



Form of Candida nearly, narrower with slightly longer elytra. 

 Creamy white with three pairs of dark spots. Length 4.75 mm. 



Vertex a trifle longer than its basal width, disc convex, apex distinctly 

 conically pointed, vertex margin distinct from the eyes to apex. Pro- 

 notum rather long, parallel margined. Elytra moderately long, base 

 of apical cells equalling the apex of ovipositor; venation obscure. 

 Female segment very long, truncate or slightly emarginate posteriorly. 



Color Rich creamy white, a point on apex of vertex and a pair of 



