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The new species clearly was the insect which the late Dr. R. C. 
Smith studied from Manhattan, Kansas (Smith 1922, as Chrysopa 
cockerelli). His immatures were debris carriers and overwintered as 
larvae, confirming the generic assignment. Smith found adults in 
June (CNC), others in August in association with willows; he 
deserves credit for observing that the “black lines to mouth not 
connecting, though the labrum is light brown” (Smith op. cit.: 1367, 
including Fig. 163). Consequently, we have a fairly complete descrip- 
tion of the immature stages of the new species, and it is the only 
Nearctic representative of Mallada to have been studied in such 
detail. 
On present evidence, the new species occupies the central part of 
the continent, ranging into Canada in southern Ontario and coming 
into contact with the more western M . perfectus in Arizona and 
New Mexico. 
Mallada perfectus (Banks 1895) 
Chrysopa perfecta Banks 1895: 516-517. Holotype 9 MCZ No. 1 1914, El Taste, Baja 
Calif. 
Chrysopa cockerelli Banks 1903:154-155, new synonymy. Holotype 9 MCZ No. 
1 1375, East Las Vegas, N. M. 
Chrysopa marginalis Banks 1906a:5 (not C. marginalis Navas 1905). 
Chrysopa injusta Banks 1906b:98-99, new synonymy. Holotype 9 MCZ No. 1 1374, 
Mts. nr Claremont, Calif. (Baker). 
Mallada perfectus (Banks), Adams 1975:172. 
Description. Genal stripe black, labrum (Fig. 7) wholly black, 
palpi black, antennae pale. Body light green with no middorsal 
stripe, pronotum with two cinnamon-brown patches. Wings with 
costal veinlets black at ends, pale in 'middle, $ costal veinlets: 
16-(18.7)-21, N=10; $: 1 8— (20.3)— 22, N=10 (mean in parentheses); 
transverse veins conspicuously brown-bordered. 
Male terminalia. Apodeme of ninth tergite articulates on short 
apodeme of sternites 8+9 (Fig. 6), arcessus (Fig. 5) short, broad, 
with lateral subapical projections; gonapsis (Fig. 1 1-12) with spatu- 
late emergent process, well-developed arms and simple internal 
bulb. Gonocristae small, but larger than in M. macleodi. 
Female. Spermatheca with broad-based usually short erect vela. 
Distribution. Calif., Ore., Wash., British Columbia, Wyoming, 
Utah, Colo., Ariz., N.M., Baja Calif. 
