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Distribution: Fairly common throughout the state as shown 

 by the following map : 



Hosts: The definite host is unknown. The adults are com- 

 monly taken on weeds and grasses. 



Eutettix albidus (Ball). 



Phlepsius albidus Ball, Can. Ent., xxxii, p. 203, 1900. 



Eutettix albidus Ball, Proc. Dav. Acad. Sci., xii, p. 51, pi. 2, fig. 10, 1907. 



Eutettix albidus Van D., Cat. Hemip. N. A., p. 666, 1917. 



Form: Rather small but fairly robust. Length, 3.75 to 4 mm. Ver- 

 tex one-fourth longer on middle than next the eye, about twice as wide as 

 long, disc barely depressed, broadly rounding with front, quite rounding 

 apically. Pronotum over twice as wide as long, lateral margins short, 

 posterior margin distinctly emarginate. Elytra moderately long, vertical, 

 and appressed behind. 



Color* Vertex creamy-white with six faint brown dots on anterior 

 margin and disc slightly irrorate with brown. Pronotum pale, sometimes 

 with a few brown irrorations. Elytra milky-white, sparsely marked with 

 irregular brown pigment lines which are more distinct in the male, a 

 black spot at tip of clavus and three smaller ones on basal half of clavus 

 at the edge of the markings. 



External genitalia : Female, last ventral segment about three times 

 as long as the preceding, keeled, posterior margin slightly rounding and 

 with_ a small median notch ; pygof ers stout, nearly equalling ovipositor, 

 sparsely spined. Male, valve broad, margins slightly concave to broadly 

 rounded apex; plates together forming a triangle as broad as long, mar- 

 gins spiny, pilose apices exceeded by the spiny pygofers. 



Distribution: Specimens are at hand from Clark county. 

 Hosts: Doctor Ball gives Atriplex con ferti folia as the host 

 plant of this species. 



