88 The Philippine Journal of Science 1922 
Genus RHABDEPYRIS Kieffer 
a’. Postmarginal wanting; eye one-third longer than occiput. 
R. defectus sp. nov. 
a?. Postmarginal longer than basal; eye more than twice as long as occiput. 
R. luzonicus Kieff. 
Rhabdepyris defectus sp. nov. 
Female.—Black. Head almost circular, opaque, with almost 
thimblelike punctation and, like the dorsum of thorax, finely 
yellow pubescent. Eye a third longer than occiput with close 
yellow hairs; posterior ocelli scarcely farther from posterior 
margin of head than each other. Clypeus triangular, strongly 
keeled. Mandible red-brown, sublinear, quadridentate, the two | 
upper teeth very small, the two longer ones moderately long. 
Palpi pale. Antenna dark red-brown, ventrally lighter red; 
greater part of scape black-brown, as long as the following three 
joints combined, second joint turbinate, somewhat elongate, 
scarcely longer and thinner than third, this as long as thick, 
joints four to twelve transverse, thirteenth elongate and pointed, 
all glabrous. 
Pronotum scarcely elongate, opaque, very finely coriaceous and 
with close, moderately coarse, very shallow punctures, some- 
what broader behind than in front, mesonotum two-thirds as 
long as pronotum, shining, anterior half unpunctured, posterior 
half closely and finely punctured; parapsidal furrows parallel, 
the lateral furrows almost continuous; scutellum sculptured like 
pronotum, cross furrow broad. Median segment as long as 
broad, wrinkled crosswise, with five contiguous, parallel, and con- 
tinuous longitudinal carine in the middle, laterally and posterior- 
ly marginate; posterior angles truncate, with two indistinct 
teeth; posterior declivous surface somewhat excavated, almost 
smooth, the edges coarsely wrinkled, with one broad median 
carina. Metapleura obliquely striate; mesopleura coarsely co- 
riaceous. 
Wings slightly yellowish; pterostigma and veins yellow; mar- 
ginal wanting; basal oblique, arising in the distal end of subcos- 
tal; transversal less oblique; radial three times as long as basal; 
white lines branched. Femora dark brown, the four fore tibize 
red-brown like the tarsi; tibis without spines; third and fourth 
joints of fore tarsus heart-shaped. Abdomen convex, tapering 
to a point behind. 
Length, 5 millimeters. 
Luzon, Laguna, Mount Maquiling. 
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