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Vertex right-angled, the margins straight, apex with the front 

 sharply conical, length very slightly less than the basal width, nearly 

 equalling the pronotum. Elytra long and narrow as in lusoria, giving a 

 trim wedge-shaped appearance to the insect. Venation distinct, reg- 

 ular, the nervures slighth' raised. 



Genitalia : male valve short obtusely rounding. Plates narrow ap- 

 pressed, equilaterally triangular, their apices produced as minute 

 slightly sepa,rated finger-like processes as long as the plates and equal- 

 ling the rather broad and foliacous pygofers. 



Color: pale green, eyes dark, the usual indented arcuated line on 

 pronotum. Apex of vertex and tips of elytra with traces of tawny. 



Described from a single male from Arizona. The conically 

 pointed head and distinct genitalia render this a strikingly dis- 

 tinct form among the smaller species of this genus. 



Neocoelidia ramona n. sp. 



Length 3.5-4 mm. Resembling lactipennis, slightly narrower and 

 with a longer vertex and more definite nervures. Female segment 

 two-thirds as long as its width, apical margin slightly rounding. Male 

 plates nearly three times as long as their basal width, triangularly 

 narrowing on basal half, then rapidly roundly narrowing and together 

 forming a single finger-like process which equals the length of the 

 long and slightly curved pygofers. 



Color: pale creamy to dirty straw, vertex creamy, a black spot on 

 apex, a narrow median light line bordered by a pair of narrow brown 

 ones enlarged in three points. Pale specimens may have these lines re- 

 duced to an anterior dot and a posterior crescent. Pronotum dirty straw, 

 scutellum paler with a pair of marginal black spots in the male. Elytra 

 pale, milky subhyaline^ — the female with pale brown nervures, obscure 

 at the apex and along costa, the male smoky subhyaline with heavy 

 brown nervures except on apical cells. Tergum and venter black in 

 the male giving a dark cast through the elytra. 



Described from two females and two males from Ravenna, 

 California, collected by the writer. From Candida this species 

 can be separated by the absence of anteapical cells in the elytra, 

 from lactipennis by the distinct nervures, while the male plates 

 ?re longer and narrower than in any other known species. 



Neocoelidia orovila n. sp. 



Length 4.5-5 mm. Resembling Candida but more slender, slightly 

 larger and lighter colored than ramona with a shorter vertex. Female 

 segment rather long, posterior margin truncate. Male plates slightly 

 over twice longer than wide, gradually narrowing to the blunt tips. 



