84 The Philippine Journal of Science 1922 
Parepyris pleuralis sp. nov. 
Male—Black. Mandible and tegula red- brows: palpi pale, 
scape black-brown proximally, testaceous distally, the three or 
four following joints testaceous, the following ones gradually 
growing darker to black-brown; femora black-brown, tibiz 
brown, tarsi rusty yellow. Differentiated from P. acutidens by 
the following characters: Hairs of antenna one-third as long 
as thickness of joints; parapsidal furrows scarcely diverging; 
metapleura smooth and shining; wings brownish, with white, 
branched lines, simulating the obsolete veins. Teeth of claw 
pointed and shaped as in the preceding species. 
Length, 4 millimeters. 
LEYTE, Tacloban. 
Genus MELANEPYRIS Kieffer 
Only an African species has been known hitherto in this genus. 
Melanepyris asiaticus sp. nov. 
Male.—Black, shining. Head and thorax finely hairy; head 
distinctly longer than broad, with fine, scattered punctures; eye 
bare, elongate, almost as long as its distance from posterior 
margin of head; forehead truncate in front; cheek almost want- 
ing; clypeus strongly keeled. Mandible red-brown, sublineal, 
distally truncate, lower edge terminating in a sharp tooth, the 
two upper teeth very small. Antenna dark brown, filiform, dis- 
tally thinner, distal end of first two joints light brown; scape 
little shorter than the following two joints together; second 
joint almost twice as long as thick, shorter than third; fourth 
scarcely longer than third, more than twice as long as thick; 
twelfth more than three times as long as thick, scarcely shorter 
than thirteenth; hairs half as long as thickness of joints. Palpi 
pale; maxillary palpus reaching beyond middle of head, at least 
4-jointed, labial palpus at least 2-jointed. 
Pronotum trapezoid, as long as broad, eanutaned like the 
head, at least a third longer than mesonotum; this smooth in 
the anterior half, in the posterior half finely coriaceous and 
punctured like the pronotum; parapsidal furrows parallel, fine, 
ovately widened at posterior end. Scutellum opaque, coria- 
ceous, finely punctured, grooves elliptic, separated from each 
other by a carina. Median segment somewhat elongate, mar- 
ginate laterally, not so posteriorly, finely coriaceous or finely 
transversely striate, with a continuous medial longitudinal 
carina; posterior surface smooth, somewhat depressed, with a 
